Dhaka is a massive, low-lying urban expanse that is home to over 10 million people and sits at the confluence of the Meghna and Padma Rivers. The central districts straddle the banks of the Buriganga, one of the city's main transport corridors and ...

At 4,150 metres above sea level El Alto is the highest major city in the world, situated adjacent to La Paz, Bolivia's capital. Growing from a mid-sized town of 95,000 in 1980 to over one million today, El Alto is coming into its own. With a burgeoning ...

In 2019, Indonesia's former President Joko Widodo announced the relocation of the national capital Jakarta, plagued by overpopulation and constant flooding, to a new planned city in the jungle of Borneo. This new urban creation was named Nusantara. The ...

In November 2019 Armenia, a poor former Soviet Republic in the southern Caucasus, was rocked by a major scandal following shocking revelations about international adoptions of children that had taken place between 2016 and 2018. The country's National ...

This project examines the traces of the nearly three million Sudeten Germans who were expelled from the border areas of Czechoslovakia between 1945 and 1947. For centuries, German-speaking communities lived in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, shaping ...

"After leaving many years ago I returned to find a country frozen in time. Whilst London had flourished, the communities of the economic north were left behind. Cities once full of factories were filled with foodbanks, barbershops and fading hopes." ...

In June 2025, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new railway line that for the first time connects New Delhi to Kashmir. Carving through the Himalayas with its 36 tunnels and 943 bridges, it spans 272 kilometers of railway tracks. ...

Since the discovery of the first South African diamond in 1867, the country's mining industry has generated extraordinary wealth for outsiders and elites, yet few of the benefits have trickled down to local communities in mining areas, which remain among...

The Nomadic Fulani are one of the largest nomadic groups in the world, spread over 20 countries in West and Central African Sahel. Year after year they herd livestock across the hot, arid lands of the Sahel, the region below the Sahara, in search of ...

"Today, I'm going to eat three kilograms of pork and noodles." In the small, specially fitted-out studio in his brand new apartment, Ami-Ami (32) announces her menu of the day. Positioned in front of the young woman an array of smartphones, lights ...

When can I go back to school? Thats the first question many children across Latin America start their day with. For millions in the region, theres often no guarantee that their school will be open, accessible, or safe that day. Classrooms caught in ...

The Karapinar district of Konya, the largest province in Turkey, is one of the driest parts of the country. Over the past two decades, as a result of decreasing rainfall due to climate change and excessive use of groundwater for agricultural activities, ...

For most of the twentieth century, the Zambian town of Kabwe was home to one of the world's largest lead mines. During that time, mining and smelting operations released toxic particles that left large parts of the town severely contaminated with lead. ...

Over a few days in March 2022, 92 people, including bus drivers, street vendors and shoppers, were killed in El Salvador, victims of what appeared to be random gang violence. Shortly after, President Nayib Bukele declared a 'state of emergency', ...

Weda Bay on Halmahera, an island in the North Maluku province of Indonesia, now accounts for 17% of global nickel production. Indonesia, in turn, holds 42% of the worlds reserves. The costs to the environment of extracting it, however, are mounting. ...

Now common in the U.S. and other parts of the Global North, luxury pet hotels have arrived in South Africa. And the industry is booming. But in what remains the world's most unequal country, with millions living below the poverty line and decades-long ...

At 5.8 per 100,000 inhabitants., Colombia has one of the lowest suicide rates but in its indigenous communities it climbs to one of the highest. This is a phenomenon reported among ethnic minorities world-wide from the Sami in Scandinavia, to first ...

As many as 600,000 people are thought to have died in the brutal war between Tigray and Ethiopia from 2020 - 2022, far more than the war in Ukraine. Yet it is a conflict that was and continues to be largely ignored by the world's media. A conflict in ...

eco-sustainable practices. Skirting the coastline for around 500km and covering an area of over 10,000 square kilometres, the Wadden Sea is a complex ecosystem where man learns to coexist with nature. This immense wetland, shaped by the strong tides ...

Ten years ago, El Hierro staked everything on sustainability and renewable energy. Today the small Canary Island faces another epochal challenge: migration from Africa, a phenomenon that is turning it into the Lampedusa of the Atlantic "We can't go on...

As Ethiopia slowly emerges from a devastating civil war, an unexpected revolution is taking shape on the streets of Addis Ababa, the capital. Every Saturday, a group of young women gathers at the city's only skatepark, transforming it into a space of ...

Covering an area of around 50,000 square kilometres, the Ennedi Plateau in northeastern Chad is a dreamscape of sand and bizarre rock formations, chiselled out of the ground by water and wind. It is also home to rare animals such as the West African ...

The world's oldest trees are producing some of the most luxurious tea High on a mountain in China, Indigenous tea growers are using ancient techniques to create a premium tea that has never been more popular. In a high-elevation forest on Jingmai ...

They are one of the oldest groups of rangers in the world, established two centuries ago in Italy's Piedmont Alps as gamekeepers for the kings of the House of Savoy. Today the team of 44 rangers are a carefully selected elite whose task is to ...

The University of Ferrara's anechoic chamber is perhaps the quietest place in the world. Derived from Greek, the word anechoic literally means 'free of echo'. Entering the chamber is an almost mystical experience: sound doesn't reverberate and those who ...

In Angola, an iconic and beleaguered century-old railway has become the latest frontline in the global scramble for the minerals fuelling the world's green energy transition. Initiated in 1899 by the Portuguese colonial authorities but only completed ...

The roughly 150 metre wide swathe cuts through the deep and dense green of the ancient jungle, appearing like an open wound. The otherwise tranquil, steamy jungle - the second largest on the American continent - now reverberates to the sound of ...

Ms Hatsu Miyagi recently reached her 100th birthday. She's sat in an old wicker armchair that's softened with two cushions, one on top of the other. The house is simple, the walls are made of wood and a fan gently disturbs her white hair from time to ...

For almost two years, the civil war in Sudan has been raging across the huge African country - from Khartoum and Omdurman, the twin capital cities on the Nile, to El Fasher in the eastern Darfur region and along the border with South Sudan. In the ...

The Gargano peninsula, often called the 'spur on the boot' of Italy, is as black as the forest that dominates it. It is Italy's heart of darkness. This limestone promontory that juts out of Italy's southeastern coast looks like an island overlooking ...

A mesmerising natural phenomenon, long unknown to science, has been discovered by Hungarian ornithologists in Angola. In an area named 'Falcopolis' (Falcon City), hundreds of thousands of red-footed falcons gather annually before beginning their ...

Mammals were non existent in New Zealand until the arrival of humans. They brought with them a deadly cargo of invasive species resulting in the extinction of nearly half of all the country's bird species, including some of the only flightless ...

A former Democratic stronghold but now closely aligned with the second Trump administration, Big Tech remains the secular sanctuary of a visionary world devoted to innovation. Tourist flock to America's east coast to, amongst other things, visit and take...

In Narva, located in the far northeastern corner of the European Union, the Ukrainian flag flies upside down. "It's the flag of our city. It has nothing to do with Ukraine" explains Katri Rain, Narva's mayor, sitting in the wood-panelled conference room ...

Our sense of smell is often seen as less important than sight and hearing but its power to evoke a past experience and trigger strong emotional responses is equal, if not stronger, than the other senses; and that's before considering the absolutely vital...

Every year, millions of Latin Americans set out for the United States, driven by the hope of a better future. Migration, both legal and illegal, has become a central issue in U.S. politics and President Trump's harsh rhetoric, promising tougher ...