This is the introduction to Essential India, a newsletter on a vast and complicated country that will increasingly shape the ...

The world’s population is increasingly crowded into a group of often low-lying, middle-income megacities in Asia and Africa ...

This island archipelago in Asia just beat out Tokyo for the title of the "world's largest city," according to a recent UN ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

Anyone who has lived in, worked in or even briefly visited Metro Manila knows that traffic is no longer a nuisance – it has become a national crisis! A short drive that should only take 20 minutes can ...

Tehran’s water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian ...

Jakarta surpasses Tokyo as the world’s largest city with 42 million residents, highlighting Asia’s rapid megacity growth, ...

The city is bursting with a get-rich spirit that has made Nigeria’s economy the continent’s largest. Almaz relishes the growing cultural scene in Lagos. Here she poses at the African Artists’ ...