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Story of Hope
Minu Sau balances a huge rock for the sea defence wall on her head. Minu is preparing for the coming monsoon season. She is one of 300 local people involved in rebuilding the destroyed sea defence wall. Smashed to pieces by cyclone Aila the previous year, the comm... View whole story
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Minqin
Considered one of the eight most life threatening places on the planet, Minqin in north-west China is sandwiched between the two expanding deserts Tengri and Badain Jaran. Many people here have been forced to abandon their homes since heavier deadly sand clouds fr... View whole story
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A Changing Landscape
It sounds as if a mass of pigs are approaching carrying with them the crackling sound of a thousand tiny fires spitting. Deep, growling through the earth the noise gets louder. The Yaptik family's eldest son Stasik sets aside his teacup. Getting up from his recumb... View whole story
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Yakutsk
It jolts. Dusts flies up in the air behind our white Lada taxi as we fly through the wide streets of Yakutsk. In some places the asphalt is torn up, mounds and cracks open like fresh wounds caused by a gigantic force. The road is lined with warped sunken wooden h... View whole story
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Methane Lake
As permafrost thaws deep into the Arctic ground, history is unlocked from the ice. Even preserved young baby mammoths have been found here by Yar-Sale guide Karill Seretetto . Considered a bad omen by the Nenets marking the finder of such mamont remains to an ... View whole story
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Serkap River
The scale of destruction is reflected in the dark waters of rivers, streams and lakes in the peatland rainforest. Sumatran resident Pak Dani Jambang in the village of Teluk Meranti has noted a 70 percent drop in his fish catch since 1998. "Before they started logg... View whole story
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Life on Sagar Island
"Our house was over there before," says Boddadeb Mondol pointing a few hundred metres away. Not a trace of the building remains on the flat mud slope down towards the sea. "Aila took everything we had, and our soil is no longer good for cultivation," adds Boddadeb... View whole story
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The last orang
Within the first minute climbing to flying altitude, the researched facts and figures about deforestation suddenly look wrong. Nothing can fully prepare. No picture, statistic, graph or video can convey the scale of the deforestation compared to witnessing it with... View whole story
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Gangotri
400 million people live along the course of the river Ganges and are dependent on water originating from the Gangotri glacier. According to a world glacier inventory created by NASA, the United States Geological Survey and the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Ga... View whole story
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Russia62°N , 93°E |
Crossing the Yuribey68.9107°N , 69.424°E |
A Changing Landscape68.302°N , 70.33°E |
Methane Lake68.3796°N , 71.4395°E |
Yakutsk62.03963°N , 129.74706°E |
Neryungri56.692°N , 124.648°E |
Iengra56.71°N , 124.65°E |
China38.93831°N , 103.37853°E |
Minqin39.1436°N , 103.64946°E |
India22.7°N , 79.2°E |
Story of Hope21.65796°N , 88.04471°E |
Life on Sagar Island21.736°N , 88.109°E |
Mangroves21.65368°N , 88.15665°E |
Gangotri30.9383°N , 79.0641°E |
Delhi's water shortages28.6421°N , 77.2393°E |
Indonesia-6.7°N , 105.9°E |
The village of Teluk Meranti0.318°N , 102.6287°E |
Serkap River0.6576°N , 102.2346°E |
The last orang-0.31°N , 102.936°E |
Gili Islands-8.3431°N , 116.0509°E |