Imagine a world…
Just suppose, if you will, that the world does not stop emitting carbon in the next 10 years. That, in fact, global emissions continue to rise – the reductions made by rich countries more than written...
View ArticleNano excitement
Yesterday Tata Motors unveiled its Nano car – costing less than Rs 3 lakh initially, but with a promise of just Rs 1 lakh $2,000) for the basic model, the car is the cheapest in the world. The first...
View ArticleUndercurrents ripple through paradise
It’s another glorious day of sunshine in the Maldives. In the luxury resorts, honeymooning couples walk arm in arm across silver sands, delighting in the perfect weather. But something is awry in the...
View ArticleRich in poverty
We follow our Mekong down the country until it shatters into a thousand rivulets, rapids and waterfalls at Si Phan Don (Four Thousand Islands). We stay in a sleepy village on Don Khone island and soon...
View ArticlePre-election nonchalance, Bali
Walking down Poppies Gang, or any of the other gangs (alleyway) in Kuta, you could be forgiven for thinking you were somewhere on Australia’s Gold coast. Holidaymakers with occa accents saunter past in...
View ArticlePopulation is a dirty word. Time to start saying it
Population growth is a massive climate change issue. There, I’ve said it. Our species has grown too successful (in terms of population) for its habitat. We do not have enough natural resources for...
View ArticleFeed the world…
With no let-up in the drought that’s parched Ethiopia’s central, eastern and northern parts, the government is now asking for urgent food aid from the international community. It’s been a slow move –...
View ArticleElephant fiesta
We buy a tent, sleeping bags and rent a car in Jo’burg, sharing the cost, the driving and the journey with a couple from Ireland and New Zealand on their holidays here. We head north, churning hundreds...
View ArticleLiving desert
Namibia is most sparsely populated country in the world (after Mongolia), which is perhaps unsurprising since it consists almost entirely of the world’s largest desert, the Namib, after which the...
View ArticleThe world’s belly-button
Easter Island: Garlands of freshly woven flowers welcome us to Rapa Nui, the tiny Chilean island, 4000 kilometres from the mainland, that remains steadfastly Polynesia. We are in perhaps the most...
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