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Women in Orissa, India, have ways of dealing with calamity

Poems that confront human challenges – an international selection.

To save Yasuní, the oil must stay in the ground.

Adam Ma’anit navigates the snakepits of global carbon trading in the context of Yasuní.

Calm the panic or delay the inevitable?

The five oil concession regions in Yasuní National Park

No-one said oil was clean. But Ecuador’s experience of extracting fossil fuels is about as bad as it gets, reports David Ransom.

People from the Ecuadorian rainforest tell Fabrício Guamán what they think of their Government’s proposal to leave petroleum in the ground.

Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns Vanessa Baird.

Every family has its secrets. So does every nation. But Turkey’s official secret remains extraordinarily potent because public references to the massive event that occurred 93 years ago are forbidden.

In the heart of Central Asia, enclosed by the Pamir mountains to the southeast and desert in the northeast, Uzbekistan was once the seat of vast wealth and influence.

Horatio Morpurgo supplies an environmental missing link.

View from New Delhi by Urvashi Butalia

on the need for Christians to engage with the real world

Acrobatic extravagance in Tehran, as seen by Iranian photographer Kian Amani.