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 ...
There are around 5,000 active drug users residing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a 10-block corridor that runs through the heart of the city. Walking the half-mile stretch is profoundly shocking. Bodies lie scattered on the tree-lined streets and ...
From computers and mobile phones to cameras and printers, coltan is used in myriad electronic devices that are proliferating at an exponential rate across the world. With governments around the world pledging to cut their carbon emissions by gradually ...
The Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan is the unknown counterpart to Armenia's Nagorno-Karabakh: due to the tensions between the two countries, the exclave has been living in isolation for decades. Although it shares borders with Armenia, Iran and Turkey,...
With a population of over 1.4 billion, India is the most populous country on earth. Yet the number of female skateboarders can be counted on one hand. Chantal Pinzi met the women who are using skateboarding to challenge traditional gender stereotypes and...
Central America's criminal organisations keep growing in strength, seemingly impervious to the crime fighting efforts of national governments and the ever shifting patterns of their business from people trafficking to extortion and contract killing, ...