Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23 Madeleine Schwartz 7/20/23

Can Anyone Stop Paris From Drowning?

The city is preparing for the return of a hundred-year flood that could displace millions.

Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23 Simen Sætre (Tr. Siân Mackie) 7/18/23

Sins of the Salmon Kings

Every day, he releases one salmon from the pens into the sea, which gives him “an intoxicating feeling of control over life and death.”

Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23 Kang-Chun Cheng 7/6/23

On the Shores of Lake Turkana

What happens to the animals when there's nothing to drink?

Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23 Ifeosa Anwulika Nkem-Onyekpe 7/4/23

After the Flood

The water in Nigeria has now dried up, but its effects have not evaporated with it.

Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23 Kristina Berdynskykh (Tr. Dmytro Kyyan) 6/27/23

Finding Dry Land in Kherson

A Ukrainian journalist returns to her hometown after the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23 Xiaolu Guo 6/27/23

Of Rivers and Snakes

A filmmaker’s diary from the Thames and Yangtze rivers.

Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23 Kenneth R. Rosen 6/27/23

The Vanishing Breadbasket

Italy’s Po Valley is drying up. Who will feed the country now?

Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23 Elisabeth Åsbrink 6/20/23

My Literary Breakup

Notes on the end of a fifteen-year friendship.

Jacob Kushner 6/15/23 Jacob Kushner 6/15/23

The Infrastructure Trap

Kenya's $5 billion railway to nowhere is exacerbating debt and corruption.

Emily Schultheis 6/13/23 Emily Schultheis 6/13/23

The Black Zero

Germany reappraises its financial fetish.

Joshua Kucera 6/8/23 Joshua Kucera 6/8/23

The Writing on the Wall

Georgia struggles to adjust to an influx of Russian exiles.

Sophie Poole 6/6/23 Sophie Poole 6/6/23

Undoing the Alhambra Decree

Is Spain’s citizenship program for Sephardic Jews the best way to right past wrongs?

Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23 Abby Seiff & Sokummono Khan 5/30/23

The Danger of Microfinance

Small loans in Cambodia drown the poor and buoy the rich.

Snigdha Poonam 5/30/23 Snigdha Poonam 5/30/23

The Dark World of Deepfaked Debt

India’s online loan sharks are blackmailing borrowers with fake images.

Lamia Ziadé (Tr. Emma Ramadan) 5/23/23 Lamia Ziadé (Tr. Emma Ramadan) 5/23/23

My Port of Beirut

Life in the aftermath of the 2020 explosion.

Alizeh Kohari 5/16/23 Alizeh Kohari 5/16/23

Karachi 2060

The road to the city of the future: evictions, demolitions and land reclamation.

Denise Hruby 5/16/23 Denise Hruby 5/16/23

Riding the Train With the KlimaSeniorinnen

The group of older Swiss women fighting against heat waves.

Pablo Trincia (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 5/9/23 Pablo Trincia (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 5/9/23

The Curtsey

On board the Costa Concordia.

Surabhi Ranganathan 5/9/23 Surabhi Ranganathan 5/9/23

The Law of the Sea

Down in the deep, the legal distinction between land and sea no longer holds.

Kris Bartkus 5/2/23 Kris Bartkus 5/2/23

The Benthic Battlefield

1.8 million tons of unexploded ordnance lies on the North Sea floor.