Desertification threatens 24% of the world's land area spanning 126 countries and impacts 35% of the global population. Yet ...

Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of ...

Nigeria currently has a population of 237 million people and over 133 million Nigerians are living in this kind of poverty.

It was hard to know what to believe this year. In the old days, there were conspiracies about the moon landing. These days, it feels like there's a conspiracy about everything -- that the truth is up ...

However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the ...

Built on Inheritance, Not Merit The world is moving from the era of the billionaire to the age of the trillionaire, and the ...

ZIP codes with the highest poverty levels also experience higher rates of obesity, depression and low birth-weight babies. Limited access to affordable healthy food and transportation to medical ...

World Bank: Malaysia shows strong progress in reducing poverty, must now focus on inclusive growth PUTRAJAYA: The World Bank has commended Malaysia for its strong progress in reducing poverty, ...

BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 5 (UPI) --Income-based poverty in Argentina fell to 36.3% of the population in the third quarter of this year, down from 45.6% in the same period in 2024, according to a report from ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

Thea Jaffe never expected to use a baby bank. In fact, she was responsible for referring other single parents from her local community group to the charity Little Village, which provides essential ...