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Dossier: Tobacco's big child labour problem
May 10, 2019
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Text by Mark Rowe • Cartography by Benjamin Hennig
Despite cigarette consumption dropping globally, their manufacture is still one of the world’s most profitable industries. For many farmers, tobacco cultivation is a vital source of income. One big problem – much of the labour is carried out by children
To the depths of Belize’s Great Blue Hole
Apr 24, 2019
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By Erika Bergman Photographs by Aquatica Submarines
Comprising 22 dives in just over two weeks, the Blue Hole Belize expedition was an attempt to journey to the bottom of the world’s largest sinkhole – Lighthouse Reef – in order to produce a complete 3D sonar map of…
The impact of mobile work on partners and families in Australia
Apr 16, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
Two researchers have identified a deep-rooted sense of disorientation and loneliness among the partners of Australia’s growing community of mobile workers
Sean Sutton: photojournalist and landmine campaigner
Apr 04, 2019
Sean Sutton is a photojournalist and international communications manager for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), an NGO that assists people affected by landmines, unexploded ordnance, and small arms and light weapons. This interview coincides with the launch of MAG's Home Safe Home appeal…
Malaysia looks to capitalise on China’s taste for durian
Apr 03, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
As China’s demand for the notoriously smelly durian fruit soars and Malaysia looks set to capitalise, environmentalists question the cost
Clear Vision: How Sightgeist is battling blindness in developing countries
Mar 29, 2019
Written by
Robyn White
Event at the Science Museum aims to highlight the unaddressed disability of poor vision
Open-source seeds: protecting new crops from privitisation
Mar 28, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
Concern about the increasing privatisation of seeds has resulted in the creation of an open-source licence to keep seeds in public hands
Kyrgyzstan and climate change: Kol Suu, the Naryn and the Fergana Valley
Mar 27, 2019
Written by
Katie Arnold
In the saddle with Katie Arnold as she rides, drives and hitch-hikes across Kyrgyzstan, a country on the frontline of climate change where melting glaciers, drought and erratic rainfall threaten both lives and livelihoods
Why the Brumadinho dam collapse wasn’t surprising
Mar 20, 2019
Written by
Katie Burton
The recent dam collapse in Brazil could just be the beginning of a series of disasters due to inadequate dam technology and monitoring
Watch Nekton's First Descent mission into the Indian Ocean
Mar 12, 2019
Written by
Geographical
Watch the stunning live-stream from the bottom of the Indian Ocean!
Predicting the unidentified carriers of zika, dengue and yellow fever
Mar 04, 2019
Written by
Chris Fitch
Where will the next virus outbreak emerge? A new model predicting wildlife species potentially capable of transferring pathogens to humans helps answer the question
The indigenous people of Taiwan’s letter to Xi Jinping
Mar 01, 2019
Written by
Chris Fitch
Xi Jinping’s rhetoric has prompted a heartfelt but stern response from Taiwan’s indigenous people
Plotting the Greater Patagonian Trail
Feb 13, 2019
Written by
Matt Maynard
The 3,000-kilometre Greater Patagonian Trail has no signposts, printed maps or legal recognition. Satellite technology conceived the route. Matt Maynard follows in the footsteps of those who discovered it while technically, though respectfully, trespassing
The Women Who Mine
Jan 31, 2019
Written by
Eleonora Vio
Female-led artisanal mining associations are fighting back against a predominately male industry in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Digging deeper wells in Bangladesh reduces arsenic poisoning
Jan 16, 2019
Written by
Chris Fitch
Once a constant threat across Bangladesh, arsenic poisoning has significantly reduced thanks to deeper wells
How a once-maligned shrub can help farmers in Senegal grow better crops
Jan 11, 2019
Written by
Chris Fitch
Once dismissed as undesirable competitors, certain West African shrubs are now being recognised as significant crop enhancers
An international expedition to Antarctica’s icy frontier
Jan 07, 2019
Written by
Professor Julian Dowdeswell FRGS, Dr John Shears FRGS and George Horsington
In January 2019, a Dutch marine charity, the Flotilla Foundation, is due to send a major international expedition to Antarctica with the aim of exploring the remote, harsh and little studied Weddell Sea
George Boynton: the greatest explorer that never was
Dec 27, 2018
Written by
Charles Roberts
Charles Roberts reccounts the story of George Melville Boynton, perhaps the world's worst explorer
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