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 ...
Frank OConnor and Jude Sherry wanted to show me another side of Cork. Mr. OConnor and Ms. Sherry moved to Cork, a city in the south of Ireland, in 2018 after a two-year stint in the Netherlands. They were immediately struck by the number of vacant ...
Thousands of miles from war-ravaged Europe another epic showdown was unfolding in the early 1940s in Southeast Asia between the Imperial Japanese Army and US forces and their allies. The Solomon Islands, strategically located between Japan and Australia ...
Somewhere beneath the expanse of floodwater stretching beyond the horizon, lies William Yon Bol's lost home and livelihood. His dead livestock and most of his possessions are waist-deep under the water which swept in one night three years ago. His family...
More than two and a half years have passed since Russia launched a full-scale invasions of Ukraine and an estimated 3.3 million people remain displaced within their own country after fleeing their homes. Another six million are living abroad. As Russian ...
In a small town in central Tanzania, a trailblazing academy for giant rats is saving lives and changing perceptions of the world's most maligned animal. For the past twenty years, Apopo's African Giant Pouched Rats have been using their acute sense of ...
Florida has its feet in the water - and while this isn't new or just happened suddenly, the responses to the crisis are starting to show their limits. Laurent Weyl travelled through the most vulnerable areas of Florida in search of sustainable and ...
When war broke out in the middle of Khartoum, Sudan's sprawling capital city in April 2023, many were caught off guard. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had been welcomed into the fold of Sudan's Armed Forces (SAF), only to turn on them and move to seize ...
The Oltenian Sahara is the name given to an area of around 80,000 hectares in southern Romania that has progressively decertified over the past 80 years, mainly due to Communist central planning that led to massive deforestation and the draining of the ...