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India: Mercury Menace
By Sudhanshu Malhotra
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 7 August 2009
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Beautiful lakes, silent hills coated with eucalyptus and pine trees, misty mornings ascertaining a perennially cool weather, Kodaikanal comes across as a perfect tourist destination in southern India. But even this picture perfect landscape has not escaped the harsh consequences of man’s eternal greed. It is a story of suffering on account of exposure to [...]

India: Productive Lives
By Alex Masi
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 29 May 2009
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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.

Wales: Digging out a New Age for Coal
By Alex Masi
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 2 May 2009
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The recent high energy prices and the discovery of new clean-coal technologies are leading to an unexpected revival of the coal industry in Wales.

The Vale of Neath, South Wales, has maintained its predominant position in the history and production of coal since the Industrial Revolution in mid-nineteenth century.
In 1984 and 1985, with [...]

Cambodia: Poverty On Smokey Mountain
By John Brown
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific on 10 January 2009
Stats: 1,514 views and 2 Comments

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 [...]

Russia: Living With Radiation
By Alexey Pivovarov
Posted in all, features, europe on 16 December 2008
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Muslumovo village stands few kilometers from Celiabinsk, in Russia, South Ural Mountains. Its name means “city of the Muslims”, most of them are Tatar people. The town is notorious for its closeness to Mayak, the world’s biggest nuclear plant and since 10 years the key plant of the Russian nuclear industry.
In Mayak - where more [...]