From Mandalay to Kunming, the central artery between Burma and China reflects an evolving economic and political relationship.
Up to 100,000 nomads have been removed from the highland grasslands of the Tibetan Plateau. Climate change, mining and government policy are causing the rapid disappearance of this unique culture.
The tide of brain drain – from developing countries to industrialized nations – has turned. Human capital is now returning home to Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Africa.
Chinese who found it hard to fit in at the water cooler abroad feel newly valued at home as China creates a reverse brain drain by using financial incentives to lure native talent back home.
The CNN Photo Blog features Sean Gallagher's work on climate change on the Tibetan Plateau, with gallery and interview.
The Yangtze, Mekong and Yellow Rivers all originate on the Tibetan Plateau. Rising temperatures are threatening the sources of these major waterways that serve millions who live downstream.
Dam building, melting glaciers and increased flooding are just some of the threats to the Tibetan people of north Sichuan. In the town of Blackwater, these threats are becoming all too real.
James Whitlow Delano travels to Bensdorp, a boomtown in Suriname, home to the indigenous Ndyuka, Brazilian prospectors and Chinese merchants. Gold is the preferred currency here.
What are the implications of rising temperatures for the glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau—a region that feeds Asia's mightiest rivers and provides water for a billion people?
Zhang Zhiru, one of China's "barefoot lawyers," works to protect migrant workers from abuses by unscrupulous factory bosses.
The high cost of China's economic miracle: A generation of children left behind when parents work in factories hundreds of miles from home.
Chinese families are migrating to Suriname in large numbers—incurring debts, working for low wages. Will this new trend and their indentured labor signal a shift in the Americas' balance of power?
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