By Amit Dave, Gloria Dickie and Shilpa Jamkhandikar AHMEDABAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of roofs in the informal settlements of India's western Gujarat state have been painted in a reflective, white ...

Growing up in Nairobi’s Korogocho slums, it took well-wishers’ mercy to rescue George Ochieng’ from early exposure to crime ...

Multiple cooking gas cylinders in a truck caught fire and exploded on Monday in Mumbai's biggest slum of Dharavi, where hundreds of thousands live in crowded, squalid conditions, local authorities ...

Series in which a group of young people are put through their paces as they embark on a crash course in urban survival in some of the world's biggest slums.

Mountains of plastic waste The world has produced more plastic in the ... and heating is becoming increasingly common in city slums. a–f, Photographs showing the use of plastic to start a ...

In the Vanzara Vas slum in the Narol area of the city ... whose roof was painted in January. Across the world, heatwaves that, prior to the industrial revolution, had a one-in-10 chance of ...

The world has produced more plastic in the past ... A first step to overcoming the problem is understanding the reality of those living in slums. Policy-makers need to recognise these people ...