The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...

By 2007, it became home to 3,000 people who left their shanties in the ill-reputed Petare slum of east Caracas and moved into the half-constructed high-rise with large rooms, balconies. Picture by: ...

A data logger that records and transmits temperature and relative humidity, is tied to the roof of a one-room house after the ...

Starting off with the roofs of 300 houses, the mammoth 7,000 rooftop slum was transformed into a vibrant synthesis of local stories. It eventually became the pride of the slum dwellers ...

The initiative, covering 400 households, is part of a global scientific trial exploring the impact of indoor heat on health ...

Why we like it: A grand tragedy, The Godfather is often used as a measuring stick for other great films, and it’s widely considered not just a good gangster movie but one of the best movies of all ...

Our nation’s greatest tragedy is not poverty, corruption, or external threats — it’s our paralysis in the face of these challenges. The current socioeconomic-political system, dominated by oligarchs ...

From the rooftop of a Rio de Janeiro slum, amid sheet after sheet of corrugated iron, one man reclines amid succulents and ficus. His name is Luis Cassiano Silva, and he is the progenitor of the ...

The growing percentage of people living in urban areas as compared to rural ones is referred to as urbanization. In ...