Istanbul’s city-run ferry service reports more than 900 trips up, down and across the Bosphorus Strait every day across 53 piers. Annually, more than 40 million passengers board the ferries. As the city marks 175 years of service, passengers and workers reflect on their experiences.
Older generations are retiring from their roles as shepherds in Spain, while young people no longer want to take up the profession. Now, a new school is training newly arrived immigrants — mostly from African countries — who already have experience working with livestock to take on the jobs.
Pakistan is in the middle of a solar power revolution. Over the past five years, the percentage of electricity generated from solar panels jumped from 2% to nearly 25%. Almost all of that growth has been driven by individuals buying their own solar panels, removing their homes or businesses from the centralized grid and generating electricity for themselves. For The Big Fix, The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Naveed Arshad, director of the Energy Institute at Lahore University of Management Sciences, about why — and how — Pakistan has embraced solar power.
Sudan’s civil war has triggered what many describe as the world’s largest humanitarian disaster. It’s a crisis that remains dramatically underreported, according to journalist Ann Curry. She won an Emmy for her coverage of the Darfur genocide in 2007 and recently talked with refugees fleeing into South Sudan. She tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that while Western audiences closely followed the violence in Darfur nearly two decades ago, far fewer people today understand and appreciate the scale of the suffering engulfing Sudan.
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