Ecology | Cycloscope: bicycle touring planet Earth

Creatively Addressing Earth’s Health Issues – Earth’s Call festival

Earth's calling us. It's a loud call, almost a cry, but very few seem to hear. Earth's calling for us to save ourselves and our fellow living being on this planet, it's a call for survival... Our surv...

Sungai Asap, the Bakun Dam resettlement: Borneo people on the verge of extinction

Borneo, Malaysia

Sungai Asap is where the Borneo people (Kenyah, Penan, Kayan) have been resettled to built the huge Bakun dam. Their ancestral homes and lands flooded

those left in Bakun try to exploit the only resource here, tourism

Hydroelectric devastation in Borneo: interview with Save Rivers

Borneo, Malaysia, Reportage, South East Asia

Save the Rivers an interview about so-called clean energy in Borneo The word "Borneo" evokes myths of lush rainforests, strange and dangerous animals and populations of fascinating costumes... all true, unt...

Aralsk: what’s left of a sea

Kazakhstan

what's left of the port of Aralsk We keep on rushing our way through the steppe of Kazakhstan. Due to the Uzbek visa denied by the drunk consul in Azerbaijan, our bicycle trip in Central Asia rec...

water and concrete: the gates of Svaneti – the Caucasus that will be lost forever

Caucasus, Georgia, Reportage

Cycling the Georgian Caucasus to reach Kaishi, the village that should be flooded by the Khudoni mega-dam project. For our third bicycle touring reportage attempt, we finally got some local contact. Thank...

The Putin’s Olympic circles

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Russia. Sochi. February 2014.The Putin's Olympic games are over from a few hours and the Paralympics are starting.Rights issues had been discussed for a few months,seems that the media noticed human right...

Georgian big dams and the price of hydroelectric: history of Svan people and actual threats to their existence

Caucasus, Georgia, Reportage

Svan people, their culture, dwellings, and crafts. All of this could disappear to produce so-called "clean energy". History of Svaneti and Khudoni hydropower plant.

Kyrgyzstan: Fergana valley, between radioactivity and territorial conflicts

Uranium mining in Kyrgyzstan, and radioactive waste at the border with the valley of Fergana. A serious issue for the geopolitical stability of the region

Brief point about nomads in Kazakhstan

Central Asia, Kazakhstan

Before going to cycle Kazakhstan, we asked ourselves: are there still Kazakh nomad out there? Or Soviet Union wiped them all out?

Farewell Aral Sea

Kazakhstan, Reportage

Aral Lake (or Aral Sea) used to be the 4th largest lake in the world for surface (68,000km2). Now is almost a pond. What left it like it's now?

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