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Oil in the Caspian Sea is making Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan rich. But with Iran and Russia on the sea, too, is it fueling a naval arms race as well?
The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Modern Day Conflicts
In Ivory Coast—the world’s top cocoa producer—cocoa farmers bore the brunt of a civil war that killed thousands and displaced more than a million. A year after a power transfer, has anything changed?
Modern Day Conflicts
Suriname, with its pristine environment, has become a pawn in a new Great Game as the balance of power in the Americas shifts from the United States toward China.
The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations, Modern Day Conflicts
Europeans drew Africa’s borders long ago. Today these lines are often deserted and sometimes dangerous. Mali is the legacy: A crumbling state, rump of ancient empire between desert and forest.
Modern Day Conflicts
Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.
The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations, Modern Day Conflicts
Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self-expression for women. Today they are an important vehicle of public dissent.
The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations
As the trash in Nairobi's vast Dandora dump continues to pile up, photojournalist Micah Albert looks Kenya's waste management disaster.
Health, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy
An immersive, transmedia book project for the iPad on the birth of the world's newest country from photographer Trevor Snapp and reporter Alan Boswell.
Modern Day Conflicts
Resources for teachers and students ahead of Dominic Bracco's classroom visit.
Immigration, Modern Day Conflicts
From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, climate change is gripping Latin America. Simeon Tegel reports on the human consequences of drought, hurricanes, and melting glaciers.
Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy, Freshwater Resources, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments
Despite environmental protection policies, Cambodia’s growing economy and population have caused one of the world’s worst rates of deforestation.
Ecosystems, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy
Resources for students and teachers ahead of journalist Ameto Akpe's visit.
Environmental Public Policy, Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources, Role of Water in Natural and Human-Made Environments
Nairobi’s Dandora Municipal Dump Site has been officially "full" for years and is implicated in a host of diseases--yet provides employment to scavengers. Views from the dump and from those nearby.
Ecosystems, Effect of Human Activities on the Earth, Environmental Public Policy, The Political and Social Conditions of Developing Nations