A Rat’s Tale
By Krishna Rau
You’ve probably heard stories about rats invading fast-food restaurants in N.Y.C. or being accidentally adopted as dogs in Mexico, but in Africa, rats are being used to save lives...read more
Fair Trade Chocolate
By Krishna Rau
The fair trade movement – which ensures that farmers in the developing world are paid a fair price for their crops – has been a resounding success with coffee beans, forcing...read more
Nushu Language Dies
By Krishna Rau
The death this year of 98-year-old Yang Huanyi could mean the end of one of the world’s most secretive and mysterious languages, China’s Nushu tongue...read more
Iraqi Home Design TV
By Krishna Rau
Home design and makeover shows are huge on North American TV. You can’t change the channel without bumping into some jocular chap instructing you on the finer...read more
The Real [French] Spiderman
By Krishna Rau
He may or may not have been bitten by a radioactive spider, but Frenchman Alain Robert is making the movie Spiderman look like an earthbound mortal...read more
Flying the Andes
By Krishna Rau
There's a reason nobody has ever gone paragliding over South America's Andes before. It’s incredibly dangerous. But that didn't stop Canadian Will Gadd and American Chris Santacroce from doing it last December...read more
The Antarctic is Melting
By Krishna Rau
You know that scene in The Day After Tomorrow where a huge tidal wave hits New York? Well, we may be moving closer to that, and the primary cause may be the continued melting of the Antarctic...read more
Greening Eastern Europe
By Krishna Rau
Remember the Cold War? Those chilly, anxious years when a thick cordon of armaments and soldiers separated east from west, communism from capitalism...read more
Kalahari Bushmen vs. Botswana Government
By Krishna Rau
The lengths diamond companies are willing to go to in Africa have been well-documented – environmental destruction, fomenting civil war, supporting torture, murder and even genocide...read more
Effect of the Fires on B.C. Tourism
By Krishna Rau
Coverage of the forest fires that ravaged British Columbia this summer naturally focussed on the death and destruction caused by the infernos, which were finally brought under control...read more
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