It all began in November 2005 when I read an article concerning rising sea levels and their effect on the low level, one metre high, coastline of the islands that make up the Carteret Atoll in the South Pacific. It sounded newsworthy, topical and tropical. Even though I knew little of how to get there [...]

Alex Masi investigates the leather business in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, one of the largest production and manufacturing centres in Asia, to document child labour and indiscriminate pollution.

While phrases such as ‘holocaust’, ‘a tidal wave of fire’ or ‘being at the center of a perfect fire-storm’ were bandied around in the small groups of traumatised residents clustered in what remained of their friends and neighbours houses after Australias most devastating bushfires, almost nothing could adequately describe the complete anihilation of the village [...]

I consider it hell on earth. Literally. The smell, the smoke, the heat, the conditions. No human should have to live here, work here, grow up here, exist here, yet thousands do.

For almost a century now Jharia coal mines have been burning in the state of Jharkhand, India. It’s one of the largest coal mines [...]

Informal waste collection systems have many environmental and economic advantages. They reduce the need for landfill and save natural resources while providing an important lifeline for some of the world’s poorest people. In Buenos Aires, informal waste collectors known as “scavengers” recover 9 – 17% of municipal waste, representing an estimated savings for the municipality [...]

CARE International is the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) main partner in providing food and water to Somali refugees living in Kenya’s northern province. People have been living in this desolate and arid region for over 15 years, in a network of refugee camps managed by UNHCR. Hagadera, Ifo, and Dagahale Camps house [...]