The Indonesian islands divided over nickel mining
Raja Ampat is a collection of some 600 islands in Indonesia’s West Papua province. It is a beautiful area with…
The future of land Israel has seized from neighbors
After the last few years of war, Israel controls adjacent territory in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Israeli officials say these…
War Worsens Economic Pain in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka was careening from crisis to crisis, then came the Mideast war. People say they've got no buffer left.
The struggle to contain Ebola
Mongbwalu, a once-thriving gold-mining town in eastern DRC, is now emerging as the epicenter of the country’s latest Ebola outbreak.
In the West Bank, Israeli settlers speed up land grab from Palestinians
In a West Bank spring where Palestinians used to rest and water their flocks, Israeli settlers now swim.
Ecuadorian fishermen say they were attacked at sea in by a U.S. vessel
In recent months, a number of fishermen in Ecuador say a U.S.-flagged vessel attacked them at sea and destroyed their…
The foreign fighters from China that played a key role in Syria’s revolution
Uyghurs are a mostly Muslim ethnic minority in China, that number in the millions. Human rights groups have accused China…
British beavers back from extinction to fight floods
Climate change is making rainfall in Britain heavier and more erratic, meaning places that used to be dry are flooding…