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Aid groups have stopped using a new sea route to get aid to Gaza after an Israeli strike on the World Central Kitchen convoy that killed seven workers on Monday, April 1. Ships had been leaving from the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. Cyprus is
It was in the ancient city of Petra, in 2013, when National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek said he came upon a crossroad filled with antiquity, fabulous monuments, palaces and grand avenues chiseled into a sandstone canyon far above the rift
As sunset approached, a colorful feast was underway at Hugo Losada’s home. Twenty blue and gold macaws flew into his garden to feed on sunflower seeds and fruits.One of the parrots perched on Losada’s head like a big hat and fed on a banana tha
‘It’s a lose-lose situation’: Carbon ‘offset’ project in Cambodia accused of human rights violations
On a recent day in the Cardamom Mountains of southwest Cambodia, a local resident steered a boat along a calm waterway, pointing out plants grown by community members: durian, banana, jackfruit, avocado. This area has seen increased patrolling
It’s so hot in the middle of the day in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, Karis Magnin said, she would never go to Kite Beach when the sun’s out. But by 11 p.m., the temperature drops to around 88 degrees Fahrenheit, and the humidity also dec
These days, the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea region are known for being conflict zones. But 60,000 years ago, they were pathways out of Africa for our oldest ancestors. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been following the migratio
When dispatch rider Efo Pascal recently returned to Accra on his motorbike from one of his delivery rounds, he came back with a dusty black sweater and helmet. “Since the whole of last week and this week, the dust is too much, and it is really
Murat Aktuğralı meets with other grieving parents — to discuss their legal case — in a small classroom next to the volleyball court where his son Aras used to play.In early February of last year, boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams from the town
Eleven years ago — almost to the day — a National Geographic Explorer, Paul Salopek, began to walk across the globe. His trek started in Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa, and it will eventually take him all the way to the southern tip of South Am
To hear a related interview on The World with Sam Fabian, zoologist and author of study, click the audio player above.It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of inse
Paul Salopek has been walking across the world for the past 11 years. He's tracing the historic path of human migration from Africa through Asia and into the Americas.The journey is part of his "Out Of Eden Walk" project in collaboration with t
On a recent Sunday morning, a group of eight women birders met in the historic botanical garden in Entebbe, a town nestled along the shore of Lake Victoria.More than 400 bird species can be found in the garden. The women oohed and aahed as they
In 2017, Ellie Highwood was trying to think of what to gift a colleague who had a baby on the way.“I thought it would be nice to make them something that was meaningful,” said Highwood, then a professor of climate physics at the University of R
Sumi Jaladas crawled out from a doorway on her hands and knees and kneeled in the dirt in front of her corrugated steel home to watch her neighbors in the small village of Jela Para. It had just stopped raining and many women and children were
It’s hard not to think of Jurassic Park in the Laurel forest. The forest is vibrant green and shrouded in clouds. Ferns blanket the floor. The trunks of trees are carpeted in moss. It’s otherworldly — one feels transported back in time.
Bismark Owusu Nortey parked his truck along a road at an industrial hub in the Greater Accra region of southern Ghana, where thick plumes of black smoke poured into the sky. Owusu Nortey, who works with Ghana’s Peasant Farmers Association, is t
In a small coastal village courtyard, at an art event celebrating El Hierro’s volcanic heritage, they're burning through a lot of power. They've set up a big, brightly lit translucent cube with a dancer inside, and next to it is a slideshow of
If the US is going to supercharge its production of electric vehicles and its batteries, it’s going to need a lot more graphite.Graphite is a key battery component, and currently, much of the supply comes from China — particularly when it comes
When the Paris climate pact was gaveled into existence at the COP21 UN climate summit in 2015, it was met with a standing ovation. After more than two decades of talks, 196 countries had signed on to a climate pact requiring countries to set em
Salah Fareeq Al-Feroun and his family have been farmers in southern Iraq for generations. In the living room of his house in al-Meshkhab in Najaf Province, his son Muhammad Ziyad takes out a photo of their 32-acre farm — located about five mile
Thousands of protesters in Panama have blocked roads and shut down major portions of the Pan-American Highway this week over a government decision to fast-track a contract with a copper mining company.Cobre Panamá is a massive copper mine owned
Veterinarian Javier Bordas is very busy.On a recent morning, he rushed back into his small-town clinic in the village of Pont de Suert in Spain. He had just been at a cattle ranch near the French border, where he said he saw yet another case of
A buzz of expectation filled the large red tent set up in front of the visitor’s center at Panama’s Center of Space Sciences over the weekend as crowds prepared for a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of a solar eclipse. Sarigua National Park, one of
Shantilal Muttha, a former businessman turned social entrepreneur, was greeted by a crowd of excited students on a recent visit to the school he founded in Pune, India. BJS students perform a song prepared for the founder, S
Every day, Célia Regina das Neves fishes among the mangroves in the Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve, a conservation area at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil. Neves relies on resources from the surrounding forests and mangroves fo
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