Coal remains the main source of fuel and heat in Afghanistan, where the price increases have left many poor families struggling to heat their homes through the winter months and even as coal worsens air quality in the Afghan capital.
In many countries fertility rates have fallen. Women are putting off having children, or not having any. Infertility is also on the rise, and in Asia there’s still a stigma about it – but attitudes are changing.
Across the globe, urban developments conceived by corporations have been pitched as technological and eco-friendly utopias, but many are prohibitively expensive and catalysts for land dispossession and social inequality.