A Youthful Awakening to Mother Natureâs Laws in a Turkish Village
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Livestock far outnumber humans in âTimes and Winds,â Reha Erdemâs transporting vision of life in a mountain village in northwest Turkey.
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Grand lessons from grand larceny: An inspiring tale for today's youth.
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Do future generations need a legal representative today to protect their interests? Some legal and environmental scholars think so.
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BHAMIA, Bangladesh -- Global warming has a taste in this village. It is the taste of salt.
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Western knockoffs and Islamic bling: Debunking some popular stereotypes of life in Iran.
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By Page, Brian  Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
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Turkey's leader, a devout Muslim, talks a lot about morality these days. It's language that alarms secular Turks, who fear the government plans to make religion a part of their lives.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh -- At just 13, Shimu is arguably the most beautiful girl in her neighborhood, with her pitch-black eyes and silver nose ring. But her playful pixie smile belies her adult-size problems: Her grandmother wants her to quit seventh grade and get married, and older boys who loiter in...
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He has paid homage to nature by donning a wreath of leaves and greeting trees. He champions the world's poor and warns against relying too much on technology. Janez Drnovsek comes across as a New Age guru. He is also president of the Republic of Slovenia, a piece of the former Yugoslavia.
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Gods, gurus and eccentric relatives compete for primacy in Kirin Narayanâs enchanting memoir of her childhood in Bombay (present-day Mumbai).
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It is rarely a simple thing to be a novelist in Turkey. For Elif Shafak, it has never been more complicated.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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Sometimes what we think is true doesn't measure up to the facts. The outdoors is full of conventional wisdom that was passed around the campfire then passed down from one generation to the next. Some of this hand-me-down knowledge is accepted as fact, even when it shouldn't be.
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ZAMAAR, Mongolia -- Oyungerel crouches among the rocks and sand in the river bed, scouring for the means to send her children to college.
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Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai - this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize winner - has been called many things during her decades of activism.
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ISTANBUL -- It's the head scarf, stupid. If it weren't for a three-foot-square piece of fabric, sometimes black and stark but more often fancy or lacy, rosy pink or flowery, Turkey's 42 million voters wouldn't be going to the polls Sunday.
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By Millar, Heather  It seems like such a tall order: Proactively plan human activities so that they mesh with the natural environment. Try to approach nature as a system, even though we don't now, and may never, fully understand all of its' complexities.