From 600,000 cars in 1980 to 6.8 million today, Bangkok is seeing an increase in traffic—as well as a rise in asthma and other heath hazards.
Mumbai is a breeding ground for drug-resistant infections, most notably tuberculosis, due to poverty and mismanagement by health officials.
Granting lucrative mining concessions to Chinese companies, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says, “We cannot be beggars sitting on a bag of gold.”
Harvard School of Public Health students are mapping toilet facilities in Cheeta Camp, turning information into an advocacy tool to improve sanitation in India's slums.
Climate change imperils sprawling Lima, already one of the world’s driest cities.
Evidence of climate change spreads across Ecuador's fourth highest summit, Antisana, with land and lakes emerging where glaciers previously masked the surface.
Rising waters threaten to wash away El Salvador's mangrove forests and the meager livelihoods of local inhabitants.
Mexico's worst recorded drought is destroying harvests—with no end in sight and few solutions for farmers.
Latin America now faces the challenge of coping with the potentially devastating impacts of climate change.
In northern Mexico no rain means no pasture. Beef herds have been ravaged and the crops are decimated. Without water cattlemen are losing their livelihoods while farmers are facing ruin.
Photographer Micah Albert discusses the waste management inefficiencies in Kenya's Dandora Municipal Dump Site—a situation that is creating a human rights crisis.
Climate change and government infrastructure fail to support a stable water supply on Peru's desert coast.
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