The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world’s most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities. The Indonesian capital is home to 42 million people, according to an estimate by the population division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its World Urbanisation Prospects 2025 report published this month. Continue reading...

Australia is emerging as a quiet winner amid the Trump administration’s tariff campaign as surging gold and beef exports improve its trade balance with the US.

While well known for their ability to navigate the dark using sound, bats don’t only use sound for echolocation –  they also use it to talk to each other.

A groundbreaking study led by Project CETI and University of California, Berkeley has discovered that sperm whales produce vowel-like and diphthong-like patterns in their communications, revealing a p...

Nineteenth century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche offers us a method that can help us navigate the highly polarizing discourse that’s afflicting democracies today. IDEAS shares lessons on heal...

Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

Polar bears that have taken over an abandoned polar research station off Russia’s far eastern coast were intimately captured in drone footage by Vadim Makhorov.

Hotel guests leave behind millions of half-used bars of soap every day. A nonprofit is on a mission to repurpose them.

PG&E , California's largest electric utility, has seen a jump of more than 40% this year in requests for power supplies from data center developers across the northern part of the state, an executive with the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Libya's eastern-based government said on Wednesday it may announce a force majeure on oil fields and ports citing "repeated assaults on the National Oil Corporation (NOC)."

Chile's state-run mining firm ENAMI aims for its new Rio Tinto lithium partnership at Altoandinos to begin production in 2032 with 35,000 metric tons of the battery metal per year, and ramp up over three years to 75,000 tons, ENAMI company chief Ivan Mlynarz said on Friday.

Geothermal energy in the Great Basin of Nevada and adjoining states could produce electricity equivalent to 10% of the current U.S. power supply, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Thursday.

A record number of so-called reverse Yankee deals have been sold this year, an early sign of a possible lasting shift in the US-dominated corporate debt market.

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

As the world grows noisier, soundproof apartments, noise-canceling fabrics and “no-talking” hair salons are cropping up for people who like to keep things quiet.

Mexico said on Saturday it is suspending imports of poultry products from Brazil after the South American country confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm.

Japan said on Friday it would release another 300,000 metric tons of rice from its emergency stockpile through July and tweak its purchasing policy to counter a shortage and rein in sky-high prices.

EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...

Has Ottawa facilitated or obstructed the spectacular post-1990 growth of oilsands production? The evidence is clear: the federal government has been a major oilsands booster.