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Before They are Silenced Forever
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Socotra: Yemen’s secret Garden of Eden
Text & photos by Alessandro Gandolfi/Parallelozero/TCS
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Leading the Charge
Nepal offers an unusually positive example of a poor country whose strategies for development are simultaneously addressing climate change. It isn’t immediately obvious travelling through polluted Kathmandu, but a more careful look at the country as a whole reveals striking success at creating an all-renewable electricity system, a growing fleet of electric vehicles and motorbikes, renewable cooking systems, and a reforestation programme that is rapidly bringing forests back all across Nepal.
The Beauty of Neutrality
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Vanishing Roots
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