Canadians remain confident Gordie Howe Bridge will open even as Trump’s threats sow confusion

Inside the high-stakes push to bring US oil companies back to Venezuela

Inside China’s plan to create a new super-metropolis

Lessons from the world’s most thriving megacity

Shenzhen: The city that rewrote China’s future

A discussion about Kabul’s iconic hotel through the years

Indonesia makes plans for a utopian future capital

Italian court shoots down plan for big bridge

World’s longest underground rail tunnel in the Alps nears completion

Amid influx of tourists, Greenland’s capital sees strained infrastructure

Chemical stench, green in color: Urban runoff is not just rain, Tijuana community says

South Africa’s largest city is running out of water

La Paz’s cable car system — the world’s longest and highest — is cutting down commute times

The iconic Al-Hadba minaret has been restored in Mosul

Cuba’s long-ailing power supply fails

The Itaipu dam: A massive binational collaboration between Paraguay and Brazil

Move over Orlando, Brazil’s Balneário Camboriú is on the rise

Mexico City’s bike culture is thriving

New book explores the world of unbuilt architecture

This Paris suburb gets a facelift amid controversy ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games

‘It’s a lose-lose situation’: Carbon ‘offset’ project in Cambodia accused of human rights violations

Parents seek justice for children crushed in collapsed hotel during Turkish earthquake

A year on, a Kurdish village near Turkey’s earthquake epicenter says it’s been overlooked

New York City’s older Chinese American population faces increasing housing challenges, poverty

‘We saw an immediate drop’: Jordan’s tourism industry is suffering amid the Israel-Hamas war

Copper mine protests roil in Panama

Delhi is rolling out the welcome mat as leaders arrive for the G20 summit in India

Colombian activists try to shame city government into fixing broken sidewalks — by painting them pink

Flooding from Ukraine’s ‘Hero River’ may be a silver lining of war

A coalition of Ukrainians is documenting environmental crimes 

Parts of Iraq are drying up, impacting already vulnerable communities

Is the US still the No. 1 education destination?

Beirut museum damaged by blast reopens

Investigation begins into India’s deadly train crash

Ukrainian rock band Vopli Vidopliassova and fans rediscover an old hit 

90% of the cars on Ghana’s roads are imported used cars. Many are polluting or unsafe.

Ukraine’s air defense adapts with more sophisticated technology, equipment

Energy workers in France threaten power cuts over retirement age

Sudan’s health care system near collapse amid fighting

Archaeologists uncover ancient Moorish waterways to irrigate Granada 

Life returns to Antakya, a city nearly leveled by earthquakes in southern Turkey

Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor aims to rival the Panama Canal

This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters

Redevelopment proposal for Mumbai’s largest informal settlement stirs controversy

India’s tramway turned 150. But it’s on its last legs.

Scheduled blackouts roll South Africa into electricity crisis

A Cuban filmmaker returns home to see his family during the island nation’s worst economic crisis in decades

This Colombian town is dimming its lights to attract more tourists to view the night sky

Ukrainians move home and promise: ‘It’s going to go back to normal’ 

‘Assad can’t clean up his act with a natural disaster,’ US Amb. to UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield says

Getting earthquake aid in Syria depends on where survivors live

The geology behind the deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

‘There were screams everywhere’: Residents of northwest Syria grapple with quake aftermath

A Chinese company strikes a deal with the Taliban to extract oil from Afghanistan

Lula promises sustainable development for the Amazon

Residents of informal settlements among the most at risk from climate change 

‘The system is broken’: At COP27, developing countries push for more money to adapt to climate change

A state-owned company from China is building a massive commercial port in Peru

Long before electricity, wind catchers of Persia kept residents cool. Climate-conscious architects are taking notes.

‘Never give up’: Lviv mayor prepares for long winter amid ongoing war with Russia