Jumping: a stunning photo set by World Press Photo 2007 LaureateDenis Darzacq.

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In Jacques Leslie’s prologue to his book Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment, excerpted here at AlterNet, we learn that “between Hoover and the end of the century, more than 45,000 large dams — dams at least five stories tall — were built in 140 countries” and that “the [...]

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‘Making things worse’

Lessons on caste discrimination from post-tsunami relief

An in-depth report on caste-based discrimination in the aftermath of the tsunami that hit the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, shows that many providers of recovery programmes unwittingly, carelessly or cynically contributed to a widening divide between caste fishermen and neighbouring Dalit communities. The study, completed [...]

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Beautiful, unreal photographs by Daniel Gustav Cramer.

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Here’s a three minute answer from TED

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The next ecological and social revolution is being plotted right now in the rainforests of South America.
Our small boat bobs along the unimaginably wide Amazon River, then heads up a fast-flowing tributary the colour of tea with cream, and finally turns onto a stream leading into the heart of the rainforest. Monkeys scamper in the [...]

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In December, President George W. Bush signed a law that allows the United States to trade civilian nuclear material and technology with India, reversing decades of U.S. protestations over India’s flouting of the global nonproliferation regime in a bid for a new strategic partnership. At the signing, Bush called the deal “an important move for [...]

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Simon Rosenberg is considered among the most important strategic thinkers in American politics. As founder and president of the innovative New Democrat Network, Rosenberg has emerged from the field of traditional activists and operatives as a result of his long-range thinking and pioneering use of new media and technology to reinvent electoral politics. A former [...]

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One of the most exciting aspects of working on the internet is that it is global. It gives you the possibility of reaching out to and collaborating with people from many cultures, languages and diverse ethnic backgrounds, in ways that were not possible just a few decades ago. In order to truly take [...]

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[Columbia Business School] How much should countries spend to avoid the uncertain risk of climate change?
For environmental scientists, the question isn’t whether there will be global warming, but how much. The Earth’s temperature may rise 3 degrees centigrade in the coming decades, some scientists estimate, while others say the increase might be double that or [...]

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