Local villagers helped Shamsark off the boat, all but carrying her and her three small children as they stumbled up the slippery bank to safety. She took one look back across the river, through the grey mist to the orange ...
Social Sciences
Jun 4, 2019
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The cemetery has already been moved twice, the old school is underwater and the new one is facing the same fate as erosion constantly eats away at the land in Napakiak.
Environment
May 2, 2019
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"They're over 500 years old," says Sira Plana proudly as she points to Oliete's olive groves, many of which are thriving now thanks to an adoption scheme that has prevented this northeastern Spanish village from dying out.
Environment
Feb 12, 2019
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Sybille Tetsch returned to the German village of Proschim to set up a restaurant four years ago, in an attempt to save her birthplace from mining excavators and heal a deep rift there over the future of coal.
Environment
Jan 27, 2019
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China's rampant development has sent nature into full retreat, but in one village the countryside has crept back to reclaim lost ground.
Environment
Jun 6, 2018
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Thousands of rats have descended on villages on an island in southern Myanmar, a local official said on Tuesday, in what some have taken to be an ill omen of impending disaster.
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2017
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Malaysian authorities raised an alert for a northeastern state after the virulent H5N1 bird flu virus was found to have spread to poultry in more villages.
Ecology
Mar 16, 2017
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Croatia on Friday announced the discovery of a highly contagious strain of bird flu in poultry at a small family farm on the country's northern border with Hungary.
Ecology
Dec 30, 2016
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A French mayor has banned the virtual presence of Pokemon Go characters in his whole eastern village citing security reasons and ordered the game's creator to comply with the decree.
Software
Aug 16, 2016
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The state Environmental Protection Agency says all the most recent water samples in a northeast Ohio village are below the federal standard for lead.
Environment
Feb 17, 2016
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