A quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level, and two thirds of the country is at risk of flooding. The nation has always been, in many ways, an artificial one, predicated on controlling nature through a sophisticated system of dykes, levees, ...
The capital of China's LGBTQ+ world, tolerant Chengdu is nicknamed Gaydu: a relaxed and inclusive freeport where people can be open about their sexuality. The city is an exception in a still deeply conservative country. "My family insists that I find ...
"We have absolutely no fuel [oil] and absolutely no diesel," announced Cuba's energy minister Vicente de la O Levy in May "We have no reserves." The Cuban state electric company struggles to provide even a few hours of power a day. In the ...
Every year at Easter hundreds of Afro-Colombians travel up the Yurumangui river from Buenaventura on the Colombian Pacific coast. They navigate their way through mangroves and rainforest, arriving ten hours later at the remote riverside community of ...
There are parts of Italy that few outsiders ever get so see.; an neglected part of the country where essential services - health, education, transport - are not guaranteed, but where 13 million people, almost a quarter of the population, live. Empty ...
Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman recently proposed the concept of 'retrotopia' - the imagining of an ideal society or utopia projected, not into the future but into the past. "True to the utopian spirit, retrotopia derives its stimulus from the urge to ...
Kosovo is the youngest republic in Europe, in every sense. The country came into existence in 2008 when it gained independence from Serbia and 60 per cent of its population is under 30 years old, an educated and digitally native 'Gen Z' that has not ...
18 November 2025, Independence Park, Kingston. 35,000 Jamaicans, two hundred Curacaoans. The tenth minute of stoppage time. Then the final whistle. The sensation is complete: Curacao, a Caribbean island with a population the size of Cambridge, will ...
The people of Fanalei, a small settlement in the Solomon Islands, are adapting to a life lived on the edge of an encroaching sea: graves have been moved, a church has been washed away, and sea walls are built and rebuilt. For generations, the community ...
In Lesotho, one of the world most mountainous nations, where hundreds of thousands of people living in remote communities lack road access to healthcare, a tenacious band of flying health workers provides a lifeline. Flying around the country in tiny ...
Mongolia's capital suffocates every winter under a permanent smog. Trapped by dependence on coal, the city gasps for air, air quality indices far exceed permitted levels, and residents struggle to survive in an atmosphere that has become toxic. The ...
Ption-Ville is the only place in Haiti where life looks normal, merengue music floats from neighbourhood bars, and young men play basketball in a park. But the sound of gunshots from the city below can still shatter otherwise peaceful afternoons. In ...
The rules of cricket are famously incomprehensible to anyone not brought up on the game. Looking though Tom Shaw's lens the viewer comes away with a deeper understanding of the changing face of the country which invented the game, even if the rules are ...
Over 200,000 railway workers are responsible for roughly 20,000 kilometres of railway tracks in Ukraine. Despite the constant danger from Russian attacks, they have kept the network largely operational during the war. Their work has saved countless lives...
Sweden's image as a peace-loving welfare state of crystal clear lakes and sweeping pine forests has been tarnished by a wave of gang-related crime that features children as both victims and perpetrators. From drug-running gangs of youths to under-age ...
Quiulacocha is a visual essay that uses the alchemy of photography as a medium and a metaphor to address the impact of mining on the health of people in Cerro de Pasco, the epicentre of mining activity in Peru and one of the most polluted places in the ...