In a bold approach to conservation, the president Rafael Correa is trying to save the incredible rainforests and biodiversity of Yasuni National Park from further oil exploitation, but he needs $3.6bn to do so. The ambitious compensation plan has its critics.
With Turkey enforcing an economic blockade on Kurdish-controlled areas neighbouring the extremists’ stronghold, residents have little choice but to cross over into […]
Overwhelmed doctors are prematurely releasing patients at risk of amputation or, worse, death.
The Yazidis have been able to return to their most holy place, but US jets hover overhead and IS militants lurk around […]
The plight of the Yazidis brought the United States back into the Iraq War when Obama moved to save them on Mount […]
