Mark Rowe reveals how China is showing signs that it intends to change its policy of prioritising economic development over environmental and other concerns
THE BREEDING GROUND
Kit Gillet reports on efforts to combat drug-resistant malaria on the Cambodia–Thailand border, the global centre of new strains of the disease
Henry Wismayer discovers an innovative ecotourism initiative based around southern Kyrgyzstan’s walnut forests that’s attracting visitors eager to sample the region’s bucolic way of life
PHOTOSTORY: A TASTE OF THE ACTION
Andrew Newey travels to central Nepal to capture the work of daredevil honey hunters who risk their lives to collect honey from hives perched on sheer cliff faces in the Himalayan foothills
IN PURSUIT OF POWER
Justin Marozzi retells the story of Saddam Hussein’s rise to power and explains how his dictatorship came to define modern Iraq and its capital city
Felicity Aston recalls an expedition across the USA by airship that offered a unique opportunity to study the mechanisms at work in the atmosphere
