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, ...
Livestock farming on an Industrial scale across Europe is causing widespread environmental degradation and serious damage to the health of people living in close proximity to factory farms. Scientist attempting to define what might come to define the ...
The history of migration across the Mediterranean goes back thousands of years. In recent years, tens of thousands of people have crossed the Mediterranean by boat from North Africa and Turkey to seek asylum or to migrate to Europe. The central ...
A quarter of Romanias population, or some six million people, now lives outside the country's borders. The vast majority of these have come from the countryside and the money they send back home has irreversibly changed their villages. Even though they ...
In the densely populated enclave of Gaza, home to over 2 million Palestinians, daily life is overshadowed by peril and hardship. Described by the UN Secretary General as a "humanitarian catastrophe," the region grapples with the ongoing consequences of a...
Isolated in a generic hotel room amongst the drab grey of Istanbuls sprawling concrete suburbs, 19 year old Yuto from Japan spends his days between his room and the physiotherapy sessions in the hotels basement. The process he has chosen last for three ...
Half a million died in 100 days: neighbours attacked neighbours, children saw their families slaughtered. But 30 years on, many of the victims and perpetrators have forged reconciliations even become friends. How did it happen? The most extraordinary...
Near the western edge of the Bay of Naples, away from the famous ruins of Pompeii to the South, lies the town of Pozzuoli, a community of some 81,000 that has become popular with people seeking cheaper rents than in neighbouring Napoli. Yet unlike ...
After working on a story about Sicilian winemakers who specialise in ' natural wine' - an increasingly popular production method that avoids pesticides and additives and allows the fermentation process to happens naturally - Alfredo D'Amato stayed in ...