Residents

Johannesburg, once Africa’s world-class city, is in decline before its residents

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From taps regularly running dry to daily four-hour power cuts, the lives of many people in Johannesburg have deteriorated dramatically – JEROME DELAY/AP From the outside it doesn’t look like Johannesburg is doing well. Roads littered with potholes. Broken traffic lights have not been repaired for months. Rotting garbage on the street. But from within, … Read more

Climate change is fueling the disappearance of the Aral Sea. It also takes away the livelihood of residents

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MUYNAK, Uzbekistan (AP) — Toxic dust storms, anti-government protests, the fall of the Soviet Union — for generations, none of that has stopped Nafisa Bayniyazova and her family from making a living growing melons, pumpkins and tomatoes on farms around the world. Aral Sea. Bayniyazova, 50, has spent most of her life near Muynak, in … Read more