Climate & Environment

Trouble in the Albanian Alps

How a scheme to boost economic development in Albania’s mountainous north could end up enriching a few, harming the environment and angering its neighbours. There are few true mountain wildernesses...

The last glass eels

A slippery tale of human greed, climate change and the mysteries of the deep O n a warm morning in mid-March, a group of researchers from Ferrara University examine their catch...

N’Djamena: Searching for gas in the Chadian capital

This morning like every morning I wake up early with a single, burning thought in my mind: I must find butane gas. It might seem a trivial thing, but here...

Massacre of the penguins

I t’s hard to find the right words to describe the extraordinariness that occurs each year in Patagonia, on Argentina’s Atlantic coast. Hyperbole could only begin to capture what happened there...