Global Us: What connects us all

In 2019 Moscow unveiled a waste management plan, but implementation is proving difficult. Few Russians recycle their trash – due to a lack of awareness and facilities.

When disputes arise over sparse pastures, Habiba Tadicha is a voice for peace. As the former head of a nature conservancy, she pays respect to nature and advocates for women's rights. A portrait of an empowered woman in northern Kenya.

Matatus are the primary means of getting around Nairobi. The artwork outside and music inside the minibuses often play a key role in the success of their operators.

Online dating is a relatively new phenomenon in India. Mumbai-based artist Indu Harikumar, 39, tried her luck.

The organization Familial Forestry distributes fruit tree seedlings to families and schools, who are instructed to treat the saplings like family members. The project aims to increase tree cover, produce fruit and slow down the expansion of the desert in Rajasthan.

Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes were supposedly the inspiration for the biblical Garden of Eden. Climate change and major dams have decreased water flow to the marshes, destroying both the environment and the ancient culture of the Ma'dan people.

The monkey puzzle tree is one of the oldest tree species in the world, dating back to the dinosaur age. Climate change and deforestation endanger them, but in areas inhabited by indigenous peoples in Chile, their numbers are increasing.

All the Earth's continents were inhabited before Europeans began to colonize much of the planet. Imported diseases, genocides and slavery decimated indigenous populations. They still face discrimination today, yet there's much to learn from them.

Infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar left an unusual legacy: hippos. We met tour guide Dona Chavita on her home turf of Rio Magdalena in the Department of Antioquia. She takes tourists to see the animals that are becoming a problem themselves in the country.

Some 70 years after the end of the Korean War, a four-kilometer-wide demilitarized zone — known as the 'DMZ' — still runs along the border on the 38th parallel on the Korean Peninsula. The site, which has seen incidents, has become a sanctuary for cranes.