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The city of Khujand was established by Alexander the Great on the banks of the Syr Darya 2,500 years ago. The cityscape is viewed through a dusty and cracked window of the Leninabad hotel. You can see the river in the upper left through this hotel…

A man drives an old Soviet Lada away from Shege, a village near the south Aral Sea in Uzbekistan whose water supply has dwindled as a result of excessive diversion of water from the Amu Darya river for cotton farming upstream. The economy of the Aral…

Holes have been poked in a Soviet irrigation canal which is the only source of water in Akjar. The plumbing system fell apart after the Soviet Union collapsed so the village relies on this contaminated water, which is shut on and off randomly, for…

A worker shovels cotton at a factory in Shaartuz. Corrupt government officials reap most of the profits from this huge business. Often, the actual workers are left unpaid.

Children pick berries from trees growing along the Surkhob river in Tajikistan.

After incorporating the five Central Asian republics into its empire in 1917, the Soviet government began transforming the Amu and Syr Darya rivers, which run across the entire region, into a web of irrigation canals that brought cotton production to…

Joe, an alpha-male Macaque at the Medical Research Council’s breeding centre which is secretly housed on a military base. He will spend his life in captivity and his babies will be killed in experiments. Joe’s sole purpose in life is to provide…

Brown Bear - Ursus Arctos - Brooks Fall, Katmai National Park, Alaska - fishing the salmon run

Polar bear - Ursus maritimus - Olga Strait, Svalbard, Norway - Mother and cub trapped on a little ice floe drifting 12 miles from the nearest coast in Olga Strait. Polar bear are usually good swimmer however the cubs can not swim for so long and…

Longitude? 347m. Latitude? S0078711. Latitude? E0.18 … Should this be mapped as a resource or a boarder? It is a resource.” This is the dialogue among the villagers on the GPS team in a light opening in the dense rain forest. Bosoki Bekalola…