The Karakoram Anomaly Decoded
Text Anita Verde Images Anita Verde and Peter Marshall
For decades, scientists have believed that glaciers in the Karakoram Range are defying the trend of...
THE HUNTER’S BEST FRIEND
Dogs are the obligatory companions of a sea hunter. The Bering Strait never freezes completely, the “fast ice” – sea ice fastened to the...
Green Dreams
With its tea plantations and rice paddies, dense jungles and expansive forests, the region is well known as a green paradise. But many of...
Finding Harmony Between Humans and Elephants
….How one non-profit organisation is encouraging alternative crops to reduce human–elephant conflict in Thailand.
Text Sarah Eichstadt
When elephants enter her farm, Roengrom “Rom” Amsamarng runs...
The Trading Domes – Uzbekistan’s surviving Silk Road Bazaar
The complex of domes in sandy bricks is the living history to feel the atmosphere of the Silk Road ancient bazaar. Four out of five...
A PEEK INTO AN OBSCURE NOOK OF ASIA – The Russian Rice Connection
According to an old legend of the Soyot people, a vicious person can never find the way into the valley of the Ok-hem River:...
Saving the World’s Biggest Eagle
The national bird of the Philippines is under threat of extinction from deforestation and human persecution
Standing a metre tall, with a wingspan of well...
INDONESIA – TROPICAL RAINFOREST HERITAGE OF SUMATRA
{Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Sumatra Utara (North Sumatra)}, Jambi, Sumatra Barat (West Sumatra), Sumatra Selatan (South Sumatra), Bengkulu, and Lampung}
The 2.5 million-hectare Tropical Rainforest Heritage...