Solar energy boom leads to toxic trash in East Africa
New York Times May 12, 2019 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After nightfall, when trash covers the streets of the busy Kariakoo market here, compactor trucks rumble along followed by men […]
New York Times May 12, 2019 DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — After nightfall, when trash covers the streets of the busy Kariakoo market here, compactor trucks rumble along followed by men […]
New York Times December 3, 2018 GBAMU GBAMU, Nigeria — Music blasts from King Royal Guesthouse, a small restaurant in the village of Gbamu Gbamu, a three-hour drive from Lagos. […]
New York Times September 22, 2018 By Amy Yee KIGALI, Rwanda — The kitchen of Ecole Secondaire Kanombe Efotec, a boarding school here, is busy from dawn to dusk while the staff […]
New York Times By Amy Yee September 22, 2018 In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs five tons of trash. As a […]
New York Times February 23, 2018 HELL’S GATE NATIONAL PARK, Kenya — Verdant hills stretch into the distance at Hell’s Gate National Park, where zebras, buffalos, antelopes, baboons and other […]
Yale Environment 360 September 14, 2017 Virunga National Park, home to the world’s largest population of mountain gorillas, is plagued by deforestation linked to the production of charcoal for cooking […]
New York Times August 30, 2017 VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo — On the verdant savanna of Virunga National Park, a herd of elephants clustered near an umbrella-shaped […]
New York Times October 4, 2016 KAKHIN BIMILE, Bangladesh — Kismat Ali is a 33-year-old mason living in Kakhin Bimile, a village a few hours drive from Dhaka, Bangladesh’s crowded […]
New York Times April 22, 2015 MELBOURNE, Australia — Off the coast of Western Australia, three big buoys floating beneath the ocean’s surface look like giant jellyfish tethered to the […]
The Economist March 14, 2015 | MELBOURNE | From the print edition NO LAND stands between Antarctica and Australia’s west coast—just a vast ocean, rippled and rocked by the Roaring […]