In the last 48 hours alone, India has secured $52 billion worth of investments from Microsoft and Amazon, underscoring the ...

Nearly all international internet traffic voyages along a handful of submarine fibre-optic cable highways. They make ...

Tanzania is set to see the highest growth rate by 2100 (1.22), followed by Mauritania (1.18), Benin (1.11) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1.01)— all in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa is ...

Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

Papua New Guinea said on Friday that Alphabet's Google will build three subsea cables, funded by Australia under a mutual ...

Geneticists reveal that the Bo people of Yunnan are direct descendants of those who practiced burial in hanging coffins.

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

If Asian countries are to break out of the middle-income trap, they must solve the problems that plague their cities. The ...

The Philippines is testing a new type of carbon credit aimed at encouraging companies to cut their climate warming emissions.

A new satellite analysis from U.S. think tank the Stimson Center has identified 517 suspected mines along rivers in Laos, ...

A major, 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck in the North Pacific Ocean near Japan on Monday, according to the United States ...