Lakshadweep: Can India’s ‘alternative Maldives’ handle mass tourism?
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Indian archipelago Lakshadweep triggered an unexpected row that soured ties with neighbouring Maldives. It also set off a surge in tourist … [read more]
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Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning
In a memo published in November 2023, Norwegian law firm Wilkborg Rein said that passing the bill with an inadequate environmental assessment could violate not only the countrys own laws on environme… [read more]
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China and Taiwan: Love and longing across the strait
Shanshan had never met anyone from Taiwan before January last year. The 24-year-old, from Changsha City in central China, had also not really paid much attention to news about the self-governing isl… [read more]
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Mozambique storms: How to cyclone-proof your life
Mozambican builder José Joaquim is determined to never again put his family through the terror of living through a cyclone in a flimsy house. When Cyclone Idai crashed on to Mozambique’s coastline f… [read more]
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The Ocean’s Mysteries—and Marvels—Are About to Reach New Depths
The ocean is Earths defining feature. Two of the most famous photographs of all time stamped that indelibly on our minds: Earthrise (1968) and The Blue Marble (1972), both taken during the Apollo mis… [read more]
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TB Joshua: ‘We thought it was heaven but then terrible things happened’
TB Joshua, a charismatic Nigerian leader of one of the world’s biggest evangelical churches, secretly committed sexual crimes on a mass scale, a BBC investigation spanning three continents has found.… [read more]
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Japan earthquake: Inside burnt and broken fishing town of Wajima
Media caption, Watch: Buildings still smouldering in quake-hit Wajima The fishing town of Wajima on Japan’s west coast is burnt and broken. At its centre, the remnants of its old marketplace are st… [read more]
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The fish that eats piranhas for breakfast
Guillermo Otta Parum has been fishing in the Bolivian Amazon his whole life, for more than 50 years. At first, Guillermo was catching native fish, such as the various kinds of catfish which inhabit… [read more]
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Fishermen find driver trapped in truck for six days in Indiana
A driver trapped in his cab under a bridge for six days after a crash in Indiana was found by two fishermen scouting for fishing holes. Mario Garcia and son-in-law Nivardo De La Torre had been killi… [read more]
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Iceland volcano: Spectacular footage of eruption
A volcano has erupted on the Reykjanes peninsula of south-west Iceland after weeks of intense earthquake activity. Footage from above showed lava bursting from the volcano just an hour after an eart… [read more]
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