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...
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A journalist set out to profile the women trolleybus drivers of Bishkek. What she found was a means of transport – and way of life – on the brink of...
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...
How Romania’s medical industry profits from women’s bodies through procedures lacking scientific evidence – some funded by public healthcare, others costing thousands of euros in private clinics Warning: This article...
The crumbling foundations of the Greek railway system Track ballast, the special-purpose gravel placed beneath railroad tracks, is like the foundations of a building. If it’s unsound, then the entire...
A journalist catches up with the “nicest people” in the far-right, anti-immigrant German AfD party – people with an immigrant background themselves. Orfeo Laudi shakes his head. “The overwhelming majority...
From the Rubik’s Cube to Ecco the Dolphin: meet the programmers from Hungary and former Comecon countries who helped shape a generation of video games By now, there’s a library’s...
