Tokyo, Japan, has long reigned as the world's most populated city, but thanks to updated counting methods, has been knocked ...

NEW YORK, May 9, 2010 — -- On a teeming street in Mumbai's Dharavi slum, amid a colorful swirl of sweet lime carts and red-clay pottery, Pastor Bala Singh brings an assortment of buckets to ...

Tokyo has been toppled as the world’s most populous city, with the Indonesian capital of Jakarta now ruling the roost, ...

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VILNIUS, Lithuania--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global market research company Euromonitor International released a new report, “Megacities: Developing Country Domination,” announcing Jakarta will overtake Tokyo ...

At festival times, the locals don sandals and cotton indigo happi coats before heaving the neighbourhood deity through the streets on an ornate palanquin. At harvest, they gather to pound rice cakes.

Mumbai. Shanghai. Tokyo. Beijing. According to the United Nations, megacities—urban areas with a population of ten million or more—housed approximately 12 percent of urban dwellers as of 2014. Here ...

New York is an energy hog, London and Paris use relatively less resources and Tokyo conserves water like a pro. These are just a few of the findings from a new study on 'megacity metabolism' -- the ...

On a man-made island in Tokyo Bay, garbage is getting a makeover. Tons of waste are trucked here daily to a large industrial building. What can't be recycled is burned and filtered for pollutants. The ...

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