Jakarta is sinking, struggling to keep the sea from invading the streets and neighbourhoods. Forty percent of the city is technically below sea level and decades of pumping groundwater out to sea on a massive scale have made the subsidence worse. Some...

The caves surrounding the village of Gbentu in northern Sierra Leone are held sacred in local culture. Kings have been laid to rest here, and tributes stowed within the crevasses. On this occasion, however, it is a dozen or so Sierra Leonean scientists ...

'On my last trip to Ukraine, I spent several weeks along the eastern front, crisscrossing the areas 'de-occupied' by the Ukrainian counter-offensive and reporting on the consequences of the Russian invasion and the on-going war. While much of the ...

In 2015 the United Nations declared access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy as one of its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) with an ambition for this to be achieved by 2030. Energy access is widely recognised as one of the ...

By the second half of this century, Africa is projected to be the global epicentre of observant Christianity, with two fifth of all Christians expected to be living in sub-Saharan Africa. Within the Christian communion it is Pentecostal Evangelicals and ...

War is a man's game; at least that's how it would appear, looking at armies around the world where only a handful of countries oblige their women to serve. In the majority of armed forces, men make up the vast majority of service personnel. Israel has ...

There was a time when the Colorado River snaked its way across the western United States and Mexico for over 2,000 kilometres from the snow-capped peaks of the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California. Since the 1980s, however, the river has been ...

The Darien Gap - a steamy expanse of roadless jungle swamp on the border between Colombia and Panama - is known simply as 'hel' to those who survive it. The passage involves steep mountain passes patrolled by drug traffickers and armed bandits, ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest serving monarch and arguably the most famous woman in the world, brought huge crowds of people onto the streets of British towns and cities, wanting to express their sadness and experience this historic ...

The Ecole des mousses is France's premier naval college that takes in around 240 young men and women every year and trains them to be the future sailors of the Marine nationale. Founded in 1856 by Napoleon III and based at a boarding school at the ...

The Damodar river darkens as it snakes through lush forest, tall maize fields and thatched villages. The rain water that falls on the Chota Nagpur Plateau in central India has turned a viscous black by the time it is scooped up into Tuklal Mahto's ...

'If we lived in gardens, religion would not have been possible. Its absence has driven us to long for paradise. The space without flowers and trees impels the eyes to look to heaven and reminds mortals that their first ancestor made a brief stop in ...

Metro Manila is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world. Around a third of its 20 million inhabitants lives in slum areas with limited access to sanitation, healthcare and education. Ulingan community in Malabon is one of the...

Norway, a country of pristine fjords, mountains and endless pine forests, derives 98% of the energy coursing through its grid from renewable sources. Near the town of Kvalsund in the far North of the country Nussir, a local mining company, is hoping to ...

In the patchwork of peoples, cultures and religions that makes up the Caucasus region, no conflict has proved more intractable and painful than the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of western Azerbaijan whose population has historically...

20 years after the end of its bitter, long-running civil war, Angola remains one of the most heavily mined nations on earth. De-mining organisations have so far found and destroyed more than 100,000 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines from across the ...