The Puszta, a grassy plain in eastern Hungary, is rapidly changing. It is the last European steppe, populated by wild horses and grazing cattle, and one of the world's richest habitats in biodiversity. Loved by poets for its 'rough honesty', it is ...

Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Facing years of conflict and humanitarian crisis, local midwives are struggling to save lives. With poverty and food shortages at record levels since the Taliban takeover in August...

Peru 1994 - 2021 In 1988 I first went to my mother's home country of Peru and in many ways, I never left. I grew up in a bucolic Southern California suburb where even the trees seemed to have been meticulously placed. Peru's unbridled chaos, ...

Blood-splattered faces and lacerated backs, every type of flesh wound inflicted with barbed wire and random auto parts. All this accompanied by screaming crowds, beer, smoke, sweat and adrenaline. Lucha Libre Extrema is not for the fainthearted and ...

Cheerleading has long been associated with American high school movies and glittery sideline entertainment, but it has a rich history. Cheerleading began in the US in the late 19th century, growing out of the civil war and finding a place among the ...

Every three months a space rocket carrying three astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. At around the same time, to the north-east in remote grasslands, three other astronauts fall ...

Thirty-six hours 'screentime' a week is the average for French teenagers. It's the equivalent of the time spent working in a full-time job each week. And adults who, on average, consult their smartphones every six minutes, are hardly setting a better ...

Few places on earth are currently as strategically sensitive as the Taiwan Strait, a 180 km wide body of water separating the island nation of Taiwan and its huge and increasingly bellicose neighbour, China. A small archipelago of some 36 islands, ...

At the end of the 1940s more than a million inhabitants lived in the Hungarian Farmlands. Even between 1945 and 1948 as many as 80 thousand new ranch houses were put up by those settling down in the prairie, wishing to be closer to their lands and ...

Whether real or fake, relics of saints are powerful objects of worship. A sacred version of the 'grand tour' consists of a busy itinerary, visiting innumerable Christian relics of saints that are kept in Rome and all over the Italian entire ...

One of the world's most dangerous volcanos is situated in the heart of Italy, near Naples. Yet it is not just Mount Vesuvius which, famously covered the city of Pompeii in deadly layers of lava and volcanic ash in 79 AD, but the potentially catastrophic ...

The world's most valuable marble has been quarried in Carrara for two thousand years. But is it still sustainable? Fifteen centuries ago the Gallic poet Namazianus described the Apuan Alps, the source of the world's most prized marble as 'dives ...

A series of droughts in the Amazon basin, especially affecting the Amazon, Negro, and Solimoes rivers, are drastically lowering water levels and disrupting local transport and the lives of communities dependent on the rivers for their livelihood. Some of...

With images taken along various sections of the almost 2,000 mile long border between Mexico and the United States, Daniel Ochoa de Olza invites the viewer to question the function and material reality of this highly politicised frontier between the two ...

In India, the 'Green Revolution' of the 1960s is not the untrammelled success that many of its boosters have claimed, though the myth persists until today. Excessive use of fertiliser and pesticides has contaminated soil, water and food and endangered ...

Convulsed by armed conflict and weakened by decades of instability, the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing a new and growing challenge - the rapid spread of monkeypox, or Mpox, an infectious viral disease that causes fever and ...