Sierra Leone: Replanting the Mountain
It takes more than a village to reverse deforestation. For Sierra Leoneans, it's a matter of changing the mindset of the people—hopefully before more tragedy strikes.
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It takes more than a village to reverse deforestation. For Sierra Leoneans, it's a matter of changing the mindset of the people—hopefully before more tragedy strikes.
Tracey Eaton discusses the dangerous living conditions in the buildings of Havana, Cuba, on Radio Caracol.
Vigilante Group of Nigeria forms the first line of defense between the population and the unknown masked men terrorizing central Nigeria's fertile farmland.
Jeffery Stern sits down with Democracy Now to discuss his Pulitzer Center supported story in New York Times Magazine: how bombs built by Raytheon in Tucson, Arizona, made its way into the Saudi arsenal and then were dropped on Yemeni villages.
Civilians are stepping in to stop the violence between farmers and herders.
Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.
A man from Guanajuato, Mexico who crossed the border to work on a farm in Connecticut contends with being away from his family for years to help support their dreams and build a new life for them.
As the Arctic warms, it’s opening up a whole new economic frontier, with opportunities for tourism, shipping, and resource development. But it brings a new array of risks for the region and the world.
While governments are happy to be wooed by multibillion-dollar loans and large-scale infrastructure investment, feelings on the streets are less warm.
By investing billions of dollars in Pakistan and dozens of other countries, China is gaining cultural cachet worldwide.
We know it's bad news that Arctic sea ice is melting. But what happens when people see opportunity in sea ice loss?
Militaries are scrambling to control the melting Arctic.