Nine years have passed since the evacuation order was largely lifted, yet the village has struggled to regain its vitality. Of the 6,500 people who once lived here, only about 1,500 have returned. In ...

Gimmelwald is a small mountain farming village located in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. With around 100 residents, the village sits among the dramatic peaks of the Jungfrau region. Known ...

A rural infrastructure project funded by the government of Japan has improved irrigation access and rural connectivity for farming communities in northern Laos, benefiting more than 1,200 households ...

Gimmelwald is a small alpine farming village in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. Home to about 100 residents, the village maintains a traditional mountain lifestyle. Colorful chalets and ...

In 2025, bears killed more than a dozen people in the country and injured more than 200 others. That’s way up from the previous record, set in 2023, of six deaths. The threat gr ...

Every morning my father wakes up and reaches for his notepad. He is composing the day’s poem, which he will post on Facebook, even before the kettle has boiled.

TIRUPATI: Once a largely agrarian belt in the Sathyavedu constituency of Tirupati district, where most women worked in farms ...

With only 1,500 residents, remote Lech has more than 50 restaurants serving local ingredients.

Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...

I offer with great humility my commemorative address on behalf of the Government at the 2026 Memorial Ceremony for the Great East Japan Earthquake. Fifteen years have now passed since the Great East ...

Across rural Bangladesh, women entrepreneurs are transforming adversity into opportunity, building successful businesses that strengthen families, communities, and the national economy ...