From low lying island nations to desiccated parts of Africa and the Middle East, climate change is affecting the way people farm, work and live their lives across the world. In Peru's high Andes, too, melting glaciers and rising temperatures are playing ...
Peru is eighth on the list of countries with the most water, but the capital Lima, where a third of the population live, is located in a coastal desert and over a million people have no access to drinking water. Collecting and storing water is a daily ...
'I am sacrificing myself living here. I have to get out' says a 47 year old man, one of the few remaining inhabitants in a community near the town of Coata in Peru on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world - 4000 metres ...
In Sierra Leone, the Chinese have stepped into the void left by the British, plundering natural resources and threatening livelihoods The Hill Station Club in Freetown was once the beating heart of Britain's colonial community. It was here that ...
For generations, the indigenous Khoisan people of South Africa's rugged Cederberg Mountains harvested the leaves of wild rooibos plants to brew tea and make herbal medicines. Once considered a 'poor man's drink', theantioxidant-rich, caffeine-free ...
Albania, one of the poorest countries in Europe with a per capita income of just $4,500, has a subsoil rich in crude oil, estimated at over 5.3 billion barrels. During the communist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha the country was largely isolated from the ...
Clubfoot is among the world's most common birth defects, affecting one in every 800 babies, yet it is a condition that many in the West have never seen. This is because, in countries with advanced health systems, it is quickly and easily treated soon ...
Over the past three years, a modern-day diamond rush has been playing out in the deserts of Namaqualand, South Africa. Driven by poverty and unemployment at home, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, increasing numbers of ...
Just outside the city of A Coruna on Spain's wild Galician coastline, lie the headquarters of the world's biggest fashion retailer Zara, whose parent company Inditex sits atop the 'fast fashion' industry it helped create. This constantly expanding ...
Although still deemed as insufficiently documented to be included in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder Fifth Edition (DSM-5-TR), problematic or pathological internet use constitutes a global - and...
In February 1995, during the holy month of Ramadan, a collective panic caused by the presumed presence of a shape-shifting spirit took hold of the island of Zanzibar. In local folklore 'popobawa', or bat wing in Swahili, is an evil spirit that descends ...
Japan is facing a unique demographic challenge. Not only does it have, along with a number of other developed countries, one of the lowest birth rates in the world. For reasons that remain intriguing to researchers in the field, Japanese people live ...
Numbering around 35 million, the Fulani, also known as Fula or Peul, are spread across 15 countries in the Sahel region stretching from the Atlantic seaboard in the West to the Red Sea in the East. Around a third of Fulani are pastoralists, making them ...
Banknotes are generally issued by governments or national banks and their imagery is intended to represent the reliability of these banks and of the economic and political system. Of course, their designs are also influenced by other countries' ...
When Covid struck, they found themselves on the frontline of the UK response. Three years on from the first lockdown, scientists and experts reflect on the highs and lows of the crisis - and reveal how they decompressed in quieter moments. For full ...
On 29th October 1923, a modern nation rose from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first President of the Turkish republic, declared Turkey to be a secular republic based on the separation of the powers of state and ...