The Weight of the World
2021 kicks off the United Nations Decade on Ocean Science. Meanwhile, a local conservation group in Watamu, Kenya races to save endangered sea turtles—by enlisting human allies. Terrain.org December 10, […]
2021 kicks off the United Nations Decade on Ocean Science. Meanwhile, a local conservation group in Watamu, Kenya races to save endangered sea turtles—by enlisting human allies. Terrain.org December 10, […]
BY AMY YEE March 17, 2020 Massachusetts Review http://massreview.org/sites/default/files/10_61.1Yee.pdf A 61-year-old man from Harbin, China, a retired truck driver who spoke zero English, was solo backpacking in the Balkans. Why? […]
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 […]
Undark July 28, 2017 Communities near the Rukinga Sanctuary once seemed locked on a path of resource decimation. But here, at least, a global conservation plan is working. By Amy […]
Electric Literature October 7, 2016 A walk in India’s capital with Akhil Sharma, winner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award Author Akhil Sharma visiting ruins in Delhi, spring 2012. Credit: […]
Roads and Kingdoms In an unprecedented campaign, thousands of Bangladesh’s garment factories are struggling to become safe places to work GO TO ARTICLE At a garment factory on the outskirts […]
Roads and Kingdoms July 30, 2014 Khulna, Bangladesh One afternoon three years ago, a tiger attacked Kamal Gazi as he was fishing on a riverbank in the mangrove forests of […]
Roads and Kingdoms March 10, 2014 Bylakuppe, India Indian pop music blasted within the autorickshaw and the flimsy metal buggy chugged to a raucous dance beat as we bumped along […]
Global Post September 5, 2013 India represents a fifth of the world’s under-5 deaths and is considered unlikely to hit its UN Millennium Development Goal — while the story is very […]
Counter to the common perception of Bangladesh as hopelessly impoverished, the country has dramatically reduced overall child mortality in recent decades. Global Post June 25, 2013 DHAKA, Bangladesh — When […]