by News Decoder | 19 Dec 2018 | Eyewitness, Student Posts, Thacher School, United States
(All photos by Jose Carpio) By Jose Carpio The Ojai Valley in the U.S. state of California is suffering from climate change. Air temperatures have been unusually high, and there’s been below-average rainfall. The effects can be seen in dried-out creeks and the...
by Nick Trombola and Frederic Musisi | 17 Dec 2018 | Africa, Climate change, Eyewitness
There’s no shortage of good will to help Africans cope with the effects of global warming. But climate aid is often misdirected — or never reaches target. An irrigation project in Karamoja, Uganda (Photo by Nick Trombola) After an intense drought in early...
by Nick Trombola | 13 Dec 2018 | Africa, Climate change, Eyewitness
(All photos by Nick Trombola)By Nick Trombola Three out of four East Africans live in rural areas. For them, water is a necessity, but increasingly scarce. Finding water that is both abundant and drinkable is often a daily chore, especially for herders tending to...
by News Decoder | 25 Oct 2018 | Asia, Discovery, Eyewitness
I went to Myanmar on a whim, and it was the best decision I could ever have made. (All photos by Sam Graves) By Sam Graves These are photos I took during my first trip to Myanmar in June 2018. I had been teaching in Vietnam and was able to travel all over Southeast...
by Malcolm Davidson | 17 Oct 2018 | Asia, Eyewitness, Islam
Cricket-star-turned-prime-minister Imran Khan says he wants to lift up the poor in Pakistan. But his renegade political drive faces economic headwinds. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan at a campaign rally in Karachi, Pakistan, 22 July 2018 (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)...
by Enrique Shore | 1 Oct 2018 | Americas, Discovery, Donald Trump, Eyewitness, United States
New York goes into lock-down every year for the UN General Assembly, which attracts world leaders — and sends photographers like me scrambling. UN Secretary-General António Guterres and U.S. President Donald Trump (Photo by Enrique Shore) News-Decoder...
by News Decoder | 19 Sep 2018 | Asia, Eyewitness, Human Rights
By Deborah Charles Twenty years ago I used to talk to Aung San Suu Kyi over a spotty telephone connection to Yangon from Bangkok, or in person when I managed to get into Myanmar and she was free to accept visitors in the house that served as her prison for 15 years....
by Paul Radford | 13 Aug 2018 | Eyewitness, Sport
By Paul Radford After three decades of reporting on an endless succession of scandals in international sport, I sometimes feel the need to ask myself two obvious questions. “Why do you still watch sport obsessively? And why, oh why, do you love it so much?” The...
by Susan Ruel | 6 Jul 2018 | Americas, Discovery, Eyewitness, United States
With homeless people strewn across cities, young Americans might think the problem is inevitable. But it was not always so — and need not be. Panhandling at subway entrance on “Billionaires’ Row” (57th Street) (Photo by Susan Ruel) NEW YORK – Young people of...
by Christine Fernando | 2 Jul 2018 | Americas, Asia, China, Eyewitness, Indiana University, Personal Reflections, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
Chinese students flaunting luxury cars and designer clothes fuel a stereotype that ignores the harsh reality for many compatriots on U.S. campuses. Chinese high school exchange students act out skits during their orientation near Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 August 2017...