Arwa Aburawa

Hit by an epi­dem­ic of gang vi­o­lence and dis­ease, sug­ar­cane cut­ters have one of the most dan­ger­ous jobs in the world.

Burk­i­na Faso’s farm­ers are turn­ing away from in­dus­tri­al farm­ing and em­brac­ing agro-eco­log­i­cal tech­niques.

A rev­o­lu­tion­ary new treat­ment is halv­ing hos­pi­tal­i­sa­tion rates for se­vere asth­ma suf­fer­ers.

New phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals can help com­bat the dead­ly dis­ease, but de­liv­er­ing it to the peo­ple in need re­mains an ob­sta­cle.

Could solv­ing the wa­ter cri­sis in Is­rael and Pales­tine also help re­solve the en­trenched oc­cu­pa­tion and con­flict?

En­vi­ron­men­tal­ists say that pol­lut­ing cor­po­ra­tions only fund Mid­dle East con­ser­va­tion projects as a “green­wash” pol­i­cy.