Environmental sustainability
News, comment and features on sustainability and sustainable development in the developing world
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Tourism starting to bleed the Lickan Antay people of the Atacama desert dryChile’s Los Flamencos reserve is the country’s first to be co-managed by the state and indigenous people. Yet the Lickan Antay’s existence is still a battle
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The designer loo revolutionising Madagascar's toilet crisisMadagascar is the fourth-worst place to find a toilet, and diarrhoea-related diseases are rife. Could an odourless and waterless loo hold the solution?
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Clashing over conservation: saving Congo’s forest and its PygmiesIn the DRC, the Mbuti people rejected a reserve that banned them from their lands. Now, with conservationists, they are exploring ways to protect the forest together
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'We have nothing but our reindeer': conservation threatens ruination for Mongolia's DukhaOne of the world’s smallest ethnic groups is finding its cultural traditions on the wrong side of Mongolian law, putting its very existence in peril
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Mangroves and incomes flourish as Sri Lanka's women promote conservation – in picturesA new project in Sri Lanka offers training and loans to women to start sustainable businesses as an alternative to cutting mangroves, and commits them to help replant degraded areas of the mangrove forests
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'The best solution? Move the Mauritanian capital': water on the rise in NouakchottA prisoner of climate change, Nouakchott faces challenges of flooding and erosion that have been exacerbated by preparations for the Arab League summit
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India should follow China to find a way out of the woods on saving forest peopleWhile China has given more than 400 million people legal rights over forest land, vast swaths of forestry in India are being degraded, leaving locals without land
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The quinoa farmers of Peru - in picturesThe rise of the traditional grain as a ‘superfood’ beloved of western foodies has been accused of driving poverty in the region. But a new report says it has helped increase the welfare of quinoa farmers in the Puno and Cusco regions of Peru
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Samoa's prime minister defends country's role as offshore tax havenTuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi says royalty payments from Panama Papers firm Mossack Fonseca and others like it provide Samoa with vital revenue
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From skyrises to traffic jams: our densely populated planet – in picturesGlobal population hit 7.3 billion people midway through 2015, an increase of 2 billion since 1990. Falling birth rates are being countered by a rise in life expectancy
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Over-populated or under-developed? The real story of population growthThe world population looks set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, but what’s behind the big numbers? We look at the complex demographic shifts in play
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More people in less space: rapid urbanisation threatens global healthAs city populations rapidly swell, our ability to prevent and control infectious disease will come under ever greater strain
Water in development Eight ideas to fund access to water and toilets for all by 2030