In Cucuta, with a new phone application called Premise, residents can identify mosquito breeding grounds and report them, so health officials can handle it.
20,269 hectares of agricultural land is at risk of harvest failure because of drought. Spokesman Agus Wibowo said an estimated 3 trillion rupiah ($215 million) loss could occur if the dro...
Hard-to-extinguish superfires that were fanned by strong winds are expected to worsen due to an inadequate allocation of resources and rising global temperatures.
India's solution to its widening gender inequality issue is to make public transport free for women. But the move is facing both support and criticism.
The new rules mean that big tech companies will have to sign licensing agreements with musicians, performers, authors, news publishers and journalists to use their work online.
Behrouz Boochani has been living in an Australian run refugee camp for six years.
Authorities in Indonesia have set an ambitious target of a 70% cut in marine plastic debris by 2025.
President Emmanuel Macron has begun a three-month national debate he hopes can quell the “yellow vest” unrest with a letter to the French in which he pledged to listen to new ideas but st...
Populist arguments that migrants pose a health risk and a burden to health systems are myths used to drive anti-immigrant sentiment, according to a new study.
Hundreds of women took part in a race in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Friday to campaign for an end to violence against women and push for acceptance of women running in public spaces.
