Natural Global Resources

Many cities are looking for a new future after the decline of traditional manufacturing industries. From the American Rust Belt...

Picture a Guatemalan landholder who wants to put her land to good use. She plants her trees, waits for them...

Pinky Sonawane spent her childhood gathering garbage on the streets of Pune, India. She’d join her mother in pulling plastic...

When a city decides to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, headlines follow. But the work has only just...

Closing more than 60 kilometers of major streets to car traffic sounds like a logistical headache for a city of...

Indonesia’s recent socioeconomic performance has been impressive. Over the past two decades, the country has cut extreme poverty in half...

Last year the global climate change community convened in the heart of Poland's Silesian coal region. While those working in...

Inequality around the world is rising, expanding the divides between the "haves" and "have-nots." This is true for incomes, development...

More than 600 million people lack clean drinking water. Drought affects more than 35 million every year. And by 2050, 1.3 billion people will...

Medellín, Colombia used to be the murder capital of the world. With the explosion of the global drug trade in...