Fighting rising waters on the Kiribati islands

Kiribati: Battling for survival (Rising Sea Levels)

An uncertain future for Indian tigers

Saving India's tigers from extinction

By the early 1970s Indian tigers had been hunted and poached to the edge of extinction - just 1800 were left, down from an estimated 40,000 in the 1930s.

Prisoners released in Syria, but thousands more still detained

Dozens of prisoners released in Syria

A positive step, but thousands still held incommunicado.

Completing high school could increase GDP

Enabling Girls to complete secondary education could boost GDP by 10%

Emerging economies that achieve 100% secondary school completion rates for girls by 2030 could see their GDP being boosted by an average of 10%, according to a new report by Citi Global Insights and Plan International.

The time to act on climate change is now

Is it too late to stop climate change? Well, it's complicated.