Survivors are blaming more than just heavy rain for the catastrophic landslides. They’re blaming deforestation and the rapid expansion of monoculture plantations for turning their mountains into ticki...
Floods and landslides have killed at least 860 people in Indonesia. Many villages remain buried under mud and debris. On the island of Sumatra, DW's Jakarta correspondent met a woman who lost her home...
Indonesia's president is under increasing pressure to declare a national emergency on the island of Sumatra, where floods and landslides have killed at least 836 people. DW joined an aid flight to an ...
A year after the Assad regime's fall in Syria, women only hold a few seats in the newly elected parliament. Activists decry this as male dominance over the country’s political life and vow to fight fo...
In Kenya, the number of women killed each year has been rising, but femicide is not even a legal term. The NGO Usikimye is working to change that and to raise awareness about gender-based violence. ...
As NATO pledges billions to buy US arms for Ukraine, the EU is planning to tap frozen Russian assets to aid Kyiv, sending a message of solidarity and warning Moscow that prolonging its war will come a...
As Russia's war in Ukraine drags on, both sides suffer heavy losses. DW met a surgeon couple volunteering to treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers. After an attack, they even had to operate on their own fa...
Researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a four-legged robot to help protect Europe's forests from overexploitation and extreme weather. "Robo-dog" maps woodlands tree by tree to improve...
A DW investigation has found that a respected charity ran a rescue operation that resulted in girls being allegedly abused by men sent to save them....
A model neighborhood is being built on one of Europe's largest construction sites: a river heat pump will supply hot water to Bremen’s Überseeinsel. ...