Kenyan farmers snap crops with phones to improve insurance payouts
A new project is training farmers to use smartphones to chart the health of their crops, so that they are more likely to receive compensation when droughts or floods hit
OPINION: 'Citizen science' can help cities stand up to climate threats
The approach can give municipalities the means to build the priorities of local people into models for disaster prevention and the design and management of cities
SE Asia urged to cooperate on taking firms to task over fire haze
Researchers say governments in the region would do better to work jointly on preventing fires than playing a blame game
The migrant caravans: A common road toward different fates
The caravans of 2018 and early 2019 were not the first of their kind – but they were, all told, the largest and most visible
Faced with climate change and growth, Ethiopia's capital shores up its water supply
Addis Ababa is building a new system to pump groundwater into reservoirs, to expand supplies in a growing, water-short city
OPINION: Children must not fall off the 2030 Development Agenda
While in the last decades the world has made progress on many fronts, millions of children are still far from freedom, safety and education
Civilians flee Syrian border towns as Turkish warplanes, artillery begin offensive
Ankara plans to resettle millions of refugees in region
Civilians flee Syrian border towns as Turkish warplanes, artillery kick off offensive
The Turkish air strikes killed two civilians and wounded two others
Red Cross urges states to take back fighters, families in northeast Syria
Few countries have seemed willing to take back their citizens, and the issue has led to fierce debate in their home countries where there is little public sympathy for jihadists' families