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Billions of tonnes of goods are moved by lorry every year – everything from food and clothes to buil
Video games are often blamed for time-wasting and violence, but there’s a group of people proving th
The city of Vaasa in western Finland has built a reputation as a centre of innovation, where energy
Imagine a grocery shop selling all your basic goods at a discounted price… and if you buy enough you
Where there are humans, there’s waste. About two billion tonnes of garbage was produced in 2016, and
If you have a cardiac arrest you need help immediately to have any chance of surviving. That’s why
It's estimated that a person dies from a snakebite every five minutes. Many more people face life-ch
For the past 20 years, police chiefs and policy makers around the world have been fascinated by an i
In the 1970s hundreds of thousands of wells were dug across Bangladesh to give people access to chol
Pollution, overfishing and oxygen depletion are damaging coastal waters across the world. Often fish
Concrete is the most used man-made product in the world but it comes with a heavy environmental pric
For the growing number of working women in Dhaka, commuting to work can be a challenge. The traff
For most of human history, pumping carbon dioxide into the air has come free of charge. Burning foss
In the US most people who are charged with a crime can’t afford expensive lawyers and investigators
It’s estimated that more than 100 million girls under the age of 18 will be married in the next deca
Each year, mental health practitioners from around the world visit Trieste in Italy to see what they
On average, one in eight children in the UK has a mental health disorder – that’s about three childr
Neighbours in the US are using cameras that read car number plates to record vehicles driving down t
More than five billion people around the world don’t have access to safe, affordable surgical care.
In the 1990s Portugal had a major heroin problem, and when it came to people injecting drugs it had
