Sudan is struggling to contain heavy rains and floods that have left a trail of unprecedented devastation. Sudan State of Emergency: Over 100 Dead The floods, which have disrupted almost all services and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless,...
Two weeks into battling the raging wildfires that have devoured large agricultural lands particularly in western Syria, the sheer size of the unprecedented ecological disaster and its grave effects on some of the country’s most cherished and historical forests as...
Whoever has experienced the horror of atomic explosions will never forget it. As the personal accounts collected in this report show. Read the full report here
What is the legacy of a nuclear test site? Contaminated soil for the next 24,000 years. This is what brought Semipalatinsk to its knees. Read the full report here
After Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, Kazakhstan sent 60,000 men. Of these, only 3,000 remain alive today. This is the desperate tale of those who lived through that hell and survived. Watch the whole report here
The illegal market for exotic animals is thriving across Southeast Asia. Now reports are indicating that it may be linked to the coronavirus epidemic
While the world is facing the Covid-19 emergency, in Chernobyl exclusion zone on 4 April an arson fire is spreading fast becoming one of the biggest ever. More than 400 firefighters struggled for 10 days to tame the flames by working under extreme conditions, often without adequate protection. constantly inhaling, radioactive particles. The fire destroyed forever many cultural and tourist sites in the area such as the Emerald summer camp, giving a serious blow to tourism in this area, already severely tested by the restrictions imposed by Covid-19. The fire touched the nuclear power plant and the nearby radioactive waste disposal site. If it got there, there'd be another Chernobyl.
The situation of the forest fires which for over two weeks have been devastating the area of Ukraine surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is becoming increasingly worrying. The area which in 1986 was the scene of the shocking disaster...
It seemed a cloud ushering in rain but the dark dense cloud was actually a swarm of desert locusts bringing nothing but devastation
Tharaka Nithi County, Kenya. On a calm Thursday afternoon as Teresina Karen was going on with her afternoon house chores she noticed what appeared to be a dark cloud covering the daytime sky. Teresina assumed that it was clouds ushering...