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Delhi's street kids
| Posted on: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 |
Category: Cities |
In 1999 a homeless 11-year-old boy with a glue-sniffing habit jumped off a train that was pulling into New Delhi railway station and vanished into the surrounding shadow-world of the desperate and destitute. Ten years later that kid stands before me on one of the station platforms in the heart of India's capital.
In search of the snow leopard
| Posted on: Friday, February 12, 2010 |
Category: Cultures |
She wasn't visible at first. Then she moved, rippling silently down a gully of rocks and padding straight up to us. This was Uncia uncia, the snow leopard, one of the most endangered species on earth, and one of the most beautiful.
Arctic wilderness under threat
| Posted on: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 |
Category: Cultures |
In the autumn of 1921 a Norwegian trapper called Georg Nilsen went polar bear hunting on the island of Spitsbergen, high in the Arctic Circle. He promised he would be back for Christmas, but he was never seen alive again.
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