India’s normally bustling streets are quiet. Delivery drivers wear gloves and face masks. Even the country’s unrelenting construction has come to a halt.

In a full-page spread on March 2, 1979, the Los Angeles Times introduced its readers to Pinyin, a Chinese romanization system it said was changing the “familiar map of China.”

As an estimated 20 percent of the world’s population is in lockdown because of Covid-19, the environment is in a unique position to recover from human-made stress and pollution. Case in point is Venice, one of the world’s most iconic tourist destinations, and consequently notoriously over-crowded. Now, with the absence […]

Country: World Source: Save the Children The impact of school closures extends beyond disruption to education – they also carry other risks to marginalised children and those from low-income households, because many may rely on school meals.