Charting Change

Cool solutions

Cities in South Asia are sizzling, with low-income residents bearing the brunt of urban heat stress. But researchers are finding ways to help them adapt.

Breaking the bonds of childhood marriage

How young girls in West Africa are helping themselves (and their communities) by changing cultural perspectives on childhood marriage

Working wonders with mine waste

How scientists in Morocco hope to turn huge slag piles of coal mining waste into bricks and transform the city of Jerada in the process