Jul 17 Chinese Factories Build Troubled Relationships By Victoria Fleischer Lizhi Jiang was born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province in 1987. His wife, Qifeng Jiang, was born in Yongzhou, Hunan Province in 1987 and works in as a factory accountant. Their son is two years old, and they plan to bring… Continue reading
Jul 17 Chinese Couples’ Love on the Line By Justin Scuiletti China's young migrant workers are the driving force behind the country's rapid urbanization, but they struggle to build families while working demanding factory jobs. Photographer Jia Daitengfei has documented these struggles with a series of portraits, taken on the very… Continue reading
Jul 12 A Look Into a River’s Past By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy California has funded scientists from the San Francisco Estuary Institute to reconstruct an image of the San Joaquin Delta’s pre-Spanish landscape. They layer navigational charts, government land surveys, drawings, photographs, and journals to paint detailed picture of the Delta ecosystem… Continue reading
Jul 05 Childhood Lost in Burkina Faso Gold Mines By Larisa Epatko Working alongside adults in Burkina Faso's gold mines are children, sometimes as young as 3 years old. View a collection of Larry C. Price's photographs. Continue reading
Jun 30 Amid Turmoil, an American ‘Prince’ Returns to Russia By Mike Fritz Ballet star David Hallberg returns to the stage of the famed Bolshoi theatre in Moscow this summer for the first time since an acid attack left Bolshoi artistic director, Sergei Filin, badly burned and nearly blind last January. Hallberg became… Continue reading
Jun 21 Brazilians Rally Against Government By Larisa Epatko In a week's worth of protests in June 2013, Brazilians showed their anger at the government's spending priorities. Continue reading
Jun 12 Singapore’s Vegetable Towers By Larisa Epatko In order to grow fresh produce on limited land, Singapore has constructed towers where seedlings grow into eatable plants. Continue reading
Jun 11 Greening the Deserts of Qatar By Larisa Epatko Researchers in Qatar are trying new techniques to grow food, such as pumping carbon dioxide into greenhouses and using drip irrigation in sandy plant beds. Continue reading
Jun 10 Costa Rica’s Biodiversity By Larisa Epatko Farmers in Costa Rica are encouraged to set aside part of their land from production to help maintain biodiversity and prevent deforestation. Continue reading
Jun 10 Biotech’s Brave New Beasts By Ellen Rolfes Chickens that lay eggs with life-saving drugs inside. Cyborg rats with microchips embedded in their brains. Beetles wired for wartime surveillance. These are just a few examples of the science fiction-type fantasies that are becoming reality in the animal kingdom… Continue reading