Human Stories
A global library of first-person and community environmental accounts. Personal testimony is always distinguished from independently verified facts.
The Burden of a Radioactive Future
France's nuclear plants produce a small amount of waste that stays dangerous for a very long time. The law decides who is responsible, and for how long.
The Politics of Scarcity
Tunisia's water shortage is real. The reason households queue for it comes down to three systems that are run separately and fail together.
The Carbon Capture Paradox
Britain is spending billions to capture carbon and bury it under the North Sea. The technology works. Whether the policy does is a different question.
The Hidden Environmental Cost of the Cloud
The internet runs on buildings. In northern Virginia, the people living beside them are discovering what that costs in electricity, water and quiet.
Beyond the Floodwaters
The Brahmaputra is the obvious culprit in Assam's floods. The harder question is why the water stays — and who is left standing in it.
The Unequal Burden of Extreme Heat
In Jacobabad, the heat is not a weather event. It is a daily test of who can afford water, shade and rest — and who cannot.
When a City Loses Its Natural Drainage
Guwahati floods from its hills as well as its river. The city was built over the drainage it depended on.
When the Rain Exceeds the City's Limits
Shanghai's answer to heavier rain is to make the city absorb water. The engineering is measurable; the protection it promises is not absolute.
The Invisible Labor of a Clean City
Cairo's streets are cleaned by a system the law does not fully recognise. Recognition, not technology, is the missing infrastructure.
When Extreme Heat Disrupts a City
Heat does not only make a city uncomfortable. It changes how its transport works — and it withdraws service from the people who depend on it most.
The Limits of Environmental Compensation
On an island where species live nowhere else, compensation has nowhere to go. The Great Nicobar project tests what environmental clearance can actually promise.
Where the Waste Goes
India's waste rules are unusually detailed. Most of the failure happens where one actor's duty ends and the next begins.
Who Pays for Environmental Damage?
Compensatory afforestation promises to replace what is cleared. In mountain forests, the replacement rarely performs the same ecological work.
The Environmental Cost of Industrial Growth
In the valley where Meghalaya meets Assam, the largest employers and the worst air share the same coordinates. That is the whole dilemma.
The Price of a Plastic Bag
A five-cent charge on a bag is a tiny price signal. Whether it changes behaviour depends less on the money than on the moment of forgetting.
The Price of an Irreplaceable Forest
Bauxite mining clears a forest that took millennia to assemble. Rehabilitation replants it, but the climate that shaped it is drying.
Beyond Environmental Awareness
Environmental education, constitutional duties and the psychology of collective action.