Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. And everyone is consuming more water - whether it’s to make soda, microchips or cattle feed. But our reservoirs are running dry. Investors are buying water rights, prices are going up and farmers are running...

UN climate experts say our future is threatened by rising global temperatures. We are already experiencing more heat waves, forest fires and flooding. The In...

In the early hours of May 25, 1944, hundreds of Waffen-SS paratroopers dropped into Josip Broz Tito’s headquarters with the support of Luftwaffe airstrikes. ...

Lebanon is now going through the worst economic crisis in its history. 80 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line. In one year, food prices h...

Eleni Myrivili has the mammoth task of ensuring the survival of Athens. As the city's newly appointed "chief heat officer," she is working on ways to prepare...

Full one-hour Australian Story documentary on former Chicago Bulls starting centre Luc Longley.

NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan full interview with ABC's Australian Story. You won’t believe MJ’s response when he was told 1994-1998 Chicago Bulls starting centre Luc Longley thought his leadership was “carnivorous”!

Climate change is causing temperatures to rise. Extreme weather events and droughts are increasing. Springs and wells are drying up. And everyone needs more water. The battles for control over precious water reserves have begun.

Communist China's war with Taiwan goes all the way back to WW2. While the Axis and Allies struggled for dominance in the Pacific theatre, China's Chiang Kai-Shek and his US backed state police fought a bloody secret war with Mao Tse-Tung's Communist China...

President Xi Jinping wants to establish the People's Republic of China as the leading world power of tomorrow. Never before has China been so successful and pursued such ambitious goals.

The Wirecard scandal brought the role of big auditing firms into focus. Their work is supposed to create trust in companies. But are appearances deceptive? EY, PwC, KPMG and Deloitte: these "Big Four" auditing firms are hardly household names. Yet they pl...

Rooibos tea and the sweetener stevia were originally discovered by indigenous peoples. Now they are among a long list of biological resources that bring profit to international corporations. Biopiracy, or scientific colonialism, is the term for when big c...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion into Ukraine, Sweden has grown more wary of Russian aggression. The Swedish government wants its citizens to be ready for the worst-case scenario and is encouraging them to become "preppers."

Long periods of sunny weather; a few heavy rain showers. That’s all fine...or is it? With increasing frequency, summer days are turning into long periods of drought, while rainfall is causing catastrophic flooding. Whereas weather systems were relatively...

In the 1980s, Swedish company Boliden shipped toxic waste to Chile. This had devastating consequences for the local population. When mining company Boliden shipped its toxic waste from Sweden to Chile in 1984, there was an agreement that the waste would b...