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Borderline detection

Sharon Weinberger | Georgia | March 04, 2010

The radiation alarm started wailing and flashing its red strobe light on an otherwise ordinary day last August as a car tried to pass through the Sadakhlo border crossing. The ...
Doctors in Peru battle increasingly drug-resistant TB

Francine Uenuma | Peru | March 02, 2010

MDR-TB patients face discrimination, long road to recovery in Peru Patients who develop multi-drug resistant tuberculosis face an arduous course ...
Peru’s Mineral Wealth and Woes

Toni Johnson | Peru | February 12, 2010

Introduction LIMA, PERU -- The commodities boom of the last decade fueled growth, but it also poses social and environmental problems. Peru is emblematic of the economic promise ...
Kurt Holle’s ecolodge employs locals while slowing the devastation of the Amazon

Matthew Clark | Peru | February 02, 2010

Kurt Holle opened the Posada Amazonas ecolodge in 1996 and will turn over all operations to locals in 2016. photo: Matthew Clark/The Christian ...
Peru farmers drop cocaine in favor of cocoa

Matthew Clark | Peru | February 02, 2010

Pinto Recodo, Peru — Deep in a valley where Peru's snow-capped Andes melt into Amazon jungle, Wilder Diaz Angulo cuts open a football-sized cocoa pod and separates precious ...
Latin America’s surprise rising economic star: Peru

Matthew Clark | Peru | January 05, 2010

Lima, Peru - Often overlooked as a player in the global economy, Peru is determined to prove that it’s more than just llamas, bowler hats, and Macchu Picchu. And these days, ...
Environment: In Peru’s Amazon, finding gold but leaving mercury

Matthew Clark | Peru | January 05, 2010

Puerto Maldonado, Peru - On a sweltering day in Peru’s Amazon, Riquelme loads a bag of rocks onto his back, sticks a plastic hose in his mouth, and steps off the back of a ...
Environmental Refugees Unable to Return Home

Joanna Kakissis | Bangladesh | January 04, 2010

DHAKA, BANGLADESH — Mahe Noor left her village in southern Bangladesh after Cyclone Sidr flattened her family’s home and small market in 2007. Jobless and homeless, she and ...
Fighting for an African forest

Perry Beeman | Rwanda | December 30, 2009

Click here to return to table of contents... GISHWATI AREA CONSERVATION PROJECT Kinihira, Rwanda — Near this east-central African village, an impassioned collection ...
Moments from the trip: Perry Beeman’s reflections

Perry Beeman | Rwanda | December 20, 2009

Click here to return to table of contents... Hiking on the job If you want to write about the environment, you have to see the environment. In Gishwati Forest, I paid for ...