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Indonesia: Sulfur Miner
By Karolus Naga
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 5 February 2011
Stats: 2,493 views and 1 Comment

Ijen caldera is one large crater that has much sulfur, which lies hidden between sheer walls of deeply furrowed rock of Ijen Volcano. This volcano emits gasses through fumaroles inside the crater and the miners trapped the gasses through stone and ceramic pipes to condenses the gasses into a molten pure sulfur and then, load [...]

Vietnam: Urban Farmers In Hanoi
By Aaron Joel Santos
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 30 June 2010
Stats: 4,635 views and 1 Comment

Vietnam’s capital is at a critical junction, balanced precariously between its past and present, trying to maintain a certain sense of culture and identity while integrating further into the global economy. Rice fields and farmlands are being overtaken by new highways, skyscrapers and industrial areas. The lakes and rivers for which the city was once [...]

Venezuela: Sinamaica Lagoon
By Aaron Sosa
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 2 June 2010
Stats: 1,774 views and 2 Comments

Sinamaica Lagoon is a large extension of water located northwest of Zulia state, Venezuela. The Paraujano population or ethnic Añu that inhabit this area have been lived on the Lagoon, in stilted houses over the water “palafitos”, since pre-colonial times. People living there, now estimated at 2800, use this body of water for fishing, transport, [...]

India: Mercury Menace
By Sudhanshu Malhotra
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 7 August 2009
Stats: 4,311 views and No Comments

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
Stats: 5,205 views and 2 Comments

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
Stats: 3,160 views and 1 Comment

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 [...]