Environment

The Nairobi River is highly polluted. But residents in one of the Kenyan capital's largest slums are cleaning it up and putting pressure on the government to set up working sewage and waste collection systems.    

Both people and the Earth's surface are made up of 70% water. This mythological source of all life, and essential source of human well-being, needs to be reintegrated into our lives if we are to save the planet.    

Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, suffers from some of the world's worst air quality, due to rapid development, the environmental engineer Bhushan Tuladhar says. How can the city in a valley be redesigned?    

The number of property claims on plants by companies is rising. This can have dramatic consequences for farmers around the globe, as a case in India shows.   

By the end of the dry season, the fires in Brazil could spread to other untouched forest areas, threatening the survival of individual tree species. But it's still too early to assess the full extent of the damage.   

Economically, Armenia has never truly recovered from the collapse of the Soviet Union. A third of the population has left since 1991. Environmental concerns had been low on the agenda — until now.