Hope in action – how the Stari Most soared once more
There are many things I remember about Bosnia in 1996, a year after the Dayton Accord brought that dreadful conflict to an end. But one of the things I…
‘Planting water’ – lessons from Tucson and Zimbabwe
The desert city of Tucson, Arizona, gets more rainfall each year than its residents use, but pays $80 million to pipe in water from the Colorado River through the…
These Oregon sheep provided US Olympic team uniforms
It was a huge shock when, having sheared their sheep, the supplier who had been buying wool from their Oregon ranch for a century told the Carvers in 1999…
The floating island that got a government’s attention
In 2009, Honduras became the only Latin American country to ban the morning after pill, threatening to jail women who took it for emergency contraception. An activist Honduran group…
How ‘touching the pickle’ changed period taboos
Menstruating women in India are often subject to long-held societal taboos about what they can do during their periods. A 2014 survey of 1,105 women and 202 men across 10 Indian cities revealed that more…
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Local leaders chart the way to sustained conservation
The Whitley Fund for Nature looks for local leaders who are already succeeding and puts its money where it really counts, and this year, awarded its top honour to a Kenyan environmentalist whose decades of work…
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They had credit histories – just not with banks
All over Latin America, women buy groceries from local store owners on credit and pay off the bill at the end of the month. But when it comes to getting a loan from a local…
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Fish from heaven – another miracle for Yoro
Fish fall from heaven once or twice a year on the poor Honduran town of Yoro. They call it The Lluvia de Peces, the rain of fish, and it is widely seen as a miracle.…
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