The World’s Andrea Crossan is criss-crossing Kenya. In this installment of her Reporter’s Journal, she visits Mpala Research Center and Conservancy, and comes face-to-face with everything from wild dogs to symbiotic ants.
by Jason Margolis
It’s always tough to be an immigrant: new culture, new language, new rules. But what’s it like to be an immigrant during a severe recession? And what’s it like to be here without documents? There’s no better place to explore this than California: it’s estimated that a quarter of the nation’s roughly 12 million undocumented immigrants live there….. (read more)
Reporter Jason Margolis visited Ukraine for 10 days. In his journal, he describes what he found: beautiful architecture, clean streets, and a certain bluntness.
A century ago, the building of the Panama Canal and construction of Lake Gatun was met with great fanfare. It captured the attention of the world, showing that the seemingly impossible was indeed possible. The engineers were heroes, household names. Newspapers were obsessed with how much earth would be excavated to build the canal – [...]
