Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but when it comes to waste management and sanitation, church and state in Ghana are not singing from the same hymnbook.
Panamanian villagers question the true cost of development in the construction of a major dam on indigenous land.
Members of Panama’s largest indigenous group, the Ngäbe-Buglé, block the country’s main roadway to protest mining and hydroelectric projects.
In Nigeria’s conservative north, a woman working under a scheme that strives to facilitate sustainable water pumps proves that what a man can do she can do just as well.
Last year Tajikistan government soldiers attacked the city of Khorog. Now residents are wondering: What next?
In the remote corner of Botswana near the Namibian border, the San village of Shaikerawe has long been pocked with dry boreholes and empty bowsers.
For the villagers of Maboane, including children, waiting hours in line for water is necessity in their daily lives.
In the sacred hills of Tsodilo, Botswana's indigenous people are still struggling to gain access to water. Their biggest obstacles? The dry, desolate Kalahari and government policies.
Poor, landlocked, and bedeviled by its neighbors, Tajikistan is staking its future on the one resource it has in abundance.
In a remote region of Tajikistan, the government used U.S.-trained special forces to aggressively pursue local warlords. The operation backfired — the special forces suffered a humiliating defeat.
In Ghana trash is often disposed of in gutters––creating stagnant pools of water that become breeding grounds for insects. Efforts to introduce trash bins have met with little success––and much theft.
Photojournalist Sean Gallagher talks about climate change and environmental degradation on the Tibetan Plateau.
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