Environmental Graffiti

The Brick Carriers of Bangladesh

Thought you had poise under intense pressure plus the strength to carry a heavy burden? Think again. In Bangladesh, people routinely stack mountainous piles of bricks onto their heads to transport the clay-fired bricks from the kilns where they are made to the construction sites where they are used. These feats of endurance and equilibrium look near inconceivable to blinkered Western eyes, but for the brick carriers, it’s all in a day’s work.

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10 Beautiful Yet Deadly Mega Metropolises

Any city with a few million inhabitants is bound to have problems: population, pollution, transportation, water quality, sanitation, crime, natural disasters – you name it. A mega metropolis with a population of 10 or even 20 million will have massive ones especially if it is disadvantaged due to geographic location. Let’s take a look at ten of these mega metros around the world and see what’s bothering them most.

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Bengal Tigers Clash With Villagers After Cyclone

As tigers’ habitat grows smaller and human settlements encroach further, clashes between the two are an inevitable environmental issue. Image by Sujit Kumar It appears those clashes are increasing in frequency in parts of the tiger’s traditional homeland. In the past two months six people have been killed and [...]

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