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Being isolated for days on end was too much for this student, locked up alone in her dormitory room in Wuhan, China. Her friends haven’t seen her since the day she lost it, and that was weeks ago.

Doctors in this country are saying an outbreak of mysterious deaths all have one thing in common: How close they are to this international oil company.

The ruthless quest for gold in eastern Cameroon has left the landscape peppered with deadly open pits.

Rising temperatures linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley, experts say.

Farming insects requires less water than cattle rearing and they emit fewer greenhouse gases. Here’s why you should make them part of your diet.

Meandering rivers and lush forests offered rich pickings for generations of farming and fishing communities. Then came the oil companies.

When traditional ambulance services wouldn't respond to calls in Kibera, Kenya one woman started her own EMS company to fill the gap. This is how.

Grave robbing in the alleged pursuit of science haunts the history of biological anthropology. See how one university is righting history's wrongs.

Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.

When class is in session, would-be "attackers" lunge at women in mock muggings. For survivors, classes can be triggering... but that might be the point, argue some experts.

When this queer woman's activism put her at the centre of a village-ordered hit, a sex worker saved her life. Go behind their story of love, life, fear and solidarity in one of the most homophobic countries in the world.

Corporate watchdog urges clean-up of supply chains as analysis finds weak regulation and enforcement has led to lack of scrutiny.

From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions around the world and cutting waiting times for life-saving healthcare. But is all that glitters really gold when it comes to the next big thing in health?

When hospitals are few and far between, these shelters become homes away from home for expecting mothers. Find out how countries around the world are getting mothers to book in for better births starting right here close to home.

With terminations outlawed in Kenya, women and girls in its largest slum have to rely on expensive and unreliable under-the-counter pills, toxic chemicals or other homemade remedies.

Sperm washing, assisted insemination & long hospital waits — if you were lucky. This is what falling pregnant when you were HIV-positive used to look like. But things are changing for the better.