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Topic: International development

Munkhbat and Altangeret have lived down this manhole in Unur district of Ulaanbaatar for three years. The search for food and warmth rules their lives, as temperatures drop to -40C. Photo by Richard Wainwright

Survivors

Filthy and violent it may be, but life is still precious for the world's street children. Can you look them in the eye?

Ben Faccini 16 May 2013
Women carrying their food rations in Turkana, Kenya in 2011. Photo by Lynsey Addario/VII

Walking on oil

East Africa is the world's latest hotspot for oil and gas exploration. Will this be a boon or a curse in arid Turkana?

Peter Guest 12 March 2013
The projected Tianjin Eco City, China. Illustration courtesy of Surbana Urban Planning Group

This world is enough

For the first time in history we could end poverty while protecting the global environment. But do we have the will?

John Quiggin 15 January 2013
Scouts and Kenya Wildife Service rangers in Kimahuri vilage, south west of Mount Kenya. Photo by Dominic Nahr/Magnum

Raining like a mountain

Electric fences are going up around Kenya's forested mountaintops. Is this the only way to keep Africa's water flowing?

Peter Guest 04 December 2012
Staff and volunteers of the North West Parks work on a black rhino that needs to be notched and micro-chipped.

Once the wild is gone

Nature conservation is still obsessed with the pristine. It needs to learn to love this mongrel world

Bill Adams 23 October 2012
Mayagna Indians during a ceremony to receive their land titles in Nicaragua.

On the hard red road

As a road cuts into their rainforest home, the Mayagna people consider how much modernity they really want

Melanie McGrath 15 October 2012
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