Letter From

Raja Ampat: Seas of Change

Its rare reefs and fisheries have withstood collapse—but for how long?

by Greg Wrenn | Monday, March 05, 2018

Laos: What Lies Beneath

Clearing a decade of American bombs in Laos

by Karen J. Coates | Monday, December 04, 2017

Israel: Occupational Hazards

Confronting academic freedom and racism in an oppressive state

by Feisal G. Mohamed | Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: Where the Waters Speak of Love

Reading Petrarch in Provence

by Jeffrey Tayler | Monday, June 05, 2017

Athens: Rocking the Cradle of Democracy

Austerity was supposed to make Greece more efficient, but it seems to be imperiling the country’s future

by John Psaropoulos | Monday, March 06, 2017

Côte d’Ivoire: Smart Girls

by Julia Lichtblau | Monday, December 05, 2016

East Timor: Mountain of Memory

Long ago, the country was home to lush rainforests, but during successive foreign occupations, loggers stripped away much of its tree canopy

by Karen J. Coates | Tuesday, September 06, 2016

South Africa: Rhinos Under the Gun

Why the decline of megafauna is due to our direct persecution

by Katarzyna Nowak | Monday, June 06, 2016

Letter from Sinjar: Convert or Die

A city ravaged by ISIS is littered with explosives and mass graves

by Cathy Otten | Monday, February 29, 2016

Letter from the Aral Sea: All Dried Up

How the fourth-largest landlocked body of water on earth almost disappeared

by Jeffrey Tayler | Monday, December 07, 2015