Households are burning plastic waste as fuel for cooking and heating in slums the world over
Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...
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Search for survivors in slums as cyclone kills already 14 people
The mayor of capital Mamoudzou, Ambdilwahedou Soumaila, told the press that rescue workers expect many casualties in the rubble of the densely populated slums, especially in the hills above Mamoudzou.
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UN warns Kenyan slums growing at high rate
Kenya is among the countries with the highest number of slums in the world. Its slums are rated by Unicef and UNDP as dwellings that pose extreme hardship to residents. It is estimated that 70 per ...
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As Olympics loom, violence flares in Rio’s slums, even those termed ‘pacified’
As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was all-too-familiar to AP’s Rio staff: stories of ...
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Slums and City Planning
It is unfortunate that in New York and many other cities public housing has pre-empted not the worst but the best of the acknowledged slum areas -- that is, those favorably located on parks and ...
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Water management revitalizes slums
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 ...
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What can be done to help the residents of Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums?
Still others defy categorisation. But all coexist in the dynamic ecosystem that is Dharavi. The slum, one of Asia’s largest, occupies over two sq km of prime real estate in India’s financial ...