Not even enough fuel for cremation
Jonathan WattsAn estimated 10 000 people have died in Ishinomaki. Jonathan Watts finds a desperate effort to feed the living as the bodies pile up.
Poor Amazonians cursed with riches
Jonathan WattsA petro-giant is sweet-talking Amazonian villagers blessed with land that has resources worth billions. Jonathan Watts reports.
Power crunch brings home China's dilemma
Jonathan WattsNo TV. No internet. No air conditioning. Traffic lights off. Hospitals deprived of electricity.
Villagers in Chinese land dispute plead for help
Jonathan WattsChinese villagers have called on their government to intervene in a bloody land dispute that has claimed at least one life so far.
Alarm bells ring over activist death toll
Jonathan WattsA new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.
Pope's innocence questioned
The church and Pope Francis have been accused of complicit silence during Argentina's 'dirty war'.
Big ideas at sideshow to Rio+20
Jonathan WattsOnly one thing unites those at the People's Summit -- unhappiness over the status quo, writes Jonathan Watts.
Brazilian soap opera beats politics
Jonathan WattsThe last episode of Avenida Brasil was a melodrama
Black cloud over China's green growth
Jonathan WattsChina making huge strides in using green energy but coal consumption continues to increase.
'Another 20 to 30 years' of unhealthy air for China's city dwellers
Jonathan WattsA haze expert has warned that despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution in urban China, dangerous smog will persist for decades.
