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Amy Maxmen talks with Nature about the World Health Organization's decision against declaring the DRC's Ebola outbreak an international emergency, and about her visit to an armed Ebola treatment centre.

Russia is dead set on being a global power. But what looks like grand strategy is often improvisation — amid America’s retreat.

Sayed Alam left his home on an island, a vacation destination in Bangladesh, for a refugee camp on the mainland.

Majid Khan, who was tortured for three years in C.I.A. prisons before being sent to Guantánamo Bay, is pursuing a strategy with his legal team in an effort to force the United States government to acknowledge what was done to him — and to give him a measure of compensation for it.

Ebola survivor Maurice Kakule Kutsunga is working to dispel rumours about the virus and health care providers.

Drica is responsible for an association of six communities of African descendants facing the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Drica's story is the third in the series 'Rainforest Defenders,' which presents five young leaders in the fight to save forests.

The Central African Republic has been blighted by a succession of vicious conflicts. Now, a former military attorney-general from the DRC is leading the country's Special Criminal Court. 

India destroys thousands of acres of forest each year, loss supposedly offset by a compensatory afforestation scheme. But the scheme, now a new law, is undermining the rights of indigenous communities.

The lives of the riberinhos who resist at the margins of the rivers of the Teles Pires watersheds live in one of the regions most impacted by dams in the Amazon. These dams generate billions of reales each year.

People are eating more fish than ever, and a third of global stocks are threatened by overfishing. A small company says its genetically engineered salmon can help meet the demand, while critics say it’s a step in the wrong direction.

Nature's Amy Maxmen talks with courageous Ebola responders who try to gain the trust of wary communities in North Kivu.

The former federal prison turned tourist attraction will serve as the perfect backdrop for this weekend's exclusive performances of The Box, a dramatic look at the effects of solitary confinement.