April 3, 2012 /
Jennifer McDonald
Resources for students and teachers ahead of journalist Ameto Akpe's visit.
November 30, 2011 / Untold Stories
Jon Sawyer, Kem Knapp Sawyer
As India's year-long confrontation over corruption enters a decisive stage, a look at the village roots and Gandhian influences of Anna Hazare, the unlikely hero of the anti-corruption campaign.
Colombian Coalmine by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, Colombia, 2011
March 11, 2011 /
Kate Seche
Do the economic benefits of coal mining outweigh the environmental, health, and safety risks of the extraction process? This lesson explores the growing coal mining industry in Colombia, relating it...
March 2, 2011 / Untold Stories
Peter Sawyer, Stephen Hobbs
You've heard about the role of social media and emergency law in the revolutions proliferating across the Middle East, but what about sex?
Image by James Whitlow Delano. Malaysia, 2011.
February 14, 2011 / Untold Stories
James Whitlow Delano
Selective logging is a common practice in Malaysia's rainforests; this "botanical dentistry" extracts valuable trees while leaving others untouched.
Children
March 5, 2010 /
Dan Grossman, Ruxandra Guidi
Scientists are certain that Earth is suffering impacts of global warming, and that these impacts will become increasingly dire. Americans, in contrast, are growing less concerned.
October 25, 2009 /
Christiane Badgley
The pipeline across Chad and Cameroon that ExxonMobil built with World Bank help has residents chafing at promises unmet.
May 11, 2009 /
Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, William Wheeler
The majority of India's water sources are polluted. A lack of access to safe water contributes to a fifth of its communicable diseases.
December 1, 2008 /
David Hecht
Twenty-five years ago Abdullahi Tijjani had a vision for Kuki, a village in the north of Nigeria he became chief of at age 14: "Hunger will become a thing of the past once we marry modern technolog