An enthusiast of winter swimming takes a dip in icy water, with buildings of Chinese border city Heihe seen in the background across the frozen Amur River in Blagoveshchensk, in Amur region, Russia, December 1, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

Mine, all mine: Rock quarrying fuels land disputes in Kenya

Once worthless rocks are now big business in rural Kenya as construction booms, but the rush for rocks is also fuelling land conflicts and family divisions


New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in advance

The tool will enable governments and others, including development and disaster response experts, to intervene early to defuse conflicts, according to the developers


Trading water: Can water shares help save California's aquifers?

'If you can buy and sell stocks, why not trade water? It's an asset, we can't live without it'


Indian fugitive holy man creates new 'cosmic' nation for Hindus

All practising Hindus - numbering more than 1 billion - can apply for citizenship in Kailaasa, founded by an Indian holy man wanted by police on sex assault charges


Privacy concerns pushing people to change online behaviour, poll shows

'A clear majority of people are worried about the power Big Tech has over their lives'


Stellar view? Space hotels race to offer tourists a room in the sky

Some day soon you might be able to board a rocket and get a room with a view - of the whole planet - from a hotel in space


India slum dwellers win property rights, thousands left out

It is a landmark move for more than 4 million people in India's cramped capital, enshrining for the first time the right to own the shacks and dwellings many call home


Fighting fire with... volunteers? Indonesia ramps up community fire brigades as tropical forests burn

Thousands of farmers have been trained to fight fires in a project aimed at saving tropical forests and carbon-rich peatlands in Indonesia


London street is "last bastion" against gentrification in new film

The film hones in on a community holding out against creeping gentrification and rising property prices


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