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In New Delhi’s textile markets, female garment workers spend their mornings sewing and packing bales. However, because they aren’t allowed to deliver parcels until the afternoon, they must transport ...
Community members from Mathare 4B on a riverside farm. In the heart of Nairobi’s Mathare slums, a quiet but powerful revolution is growing – one plant at a time. Teenage mothers, often marginalized ...
In densely urbanized Hong Kong, transport is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, at 18%. Vehicle traffic is also a major source of toxic air pollutants like NOx, volatile organic ...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing epidemic of air pollution continues around the world. The problem is particularly neglected in Brazil, where air pollution kills about 51,000 people every year, ...
An Indonesian woman plants rice seedlings in a flooded rice paddy. New WRI research finds that adaptation investment returns in the agriculture (and forestry) sector average over 29%, largely driven ...
Rafaela Aires’s workday starts at 9:00 a.m., leading her down city streets that weave past the Atlantic shoreline and under concrete overpasses. Her collected bottles and cardboard boxes used to form ...