Population growth and insufficient housing have led to the development of informal settlements or slums on city outskirts around the world. Over one billion people live in these settlements ...

Poor people in vast city slums across the Global South are burning ... recommend ways for policymakers to tackle the issue. The world has produced more plastic in the past 20 years than the ...

That is particularly true in places like Kibera, one of the East African nation's largest and oldest slums. "You can look for a plumber around here ... the informal world of tin-shack ...

With an estimated 6.5 million people residing in these conditions, Mumbai has the largest slum population of any city in the world. This disparity is not unique to India. As cities around the ...