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Calm the panic or delay the inevitable?

The five oil concession regions in Yasuní National Park

No-one said oil was clean. But Ecuador’s experience of extracting fossil fuels is about as bad as it gets, reports David Ransom.

People from the Ecuadorian rainforest tell Fabrício Guamán what they think of their Government’s proposal to leave petroleum in the ground.

Is Ecuador’s bold proposal not to exploit a billion barrels of oil in the Yasuní National Park a serious option for combating climate change? If so, the world is going to have to move fast, warns Vanessa Baird.

Every family has its secrets. So does every nation. But Turkey’s official secret remains extraordinarily potent because public references to the massive event that occurred 93 years ago are forbidden.

Nike workers in Vietnam go on strike

A yowl of fury against the Pop Idol-type mediocrity that seems so often to fuel cultural commerce these days.

by Mitchell & Richardson

say hello to water called Ethos

In the heart of Central Asia, enclosed by the Pamir mountains to the southeast and desert in the northeast, Uzbekistan was once the seat of vast wealth and influence.

Horatio Morpurgo supplies an environmental missing link.

View from New Delhi by Urvashi Butalia

West Papua’s push for independence

Colm Meaney is Tommy, an Irishman in London who plans to kill himself. Directed by Jonathan Gershfield