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Guyana

Guyana faces risks from climate change that include rising sea levels that could eventually submerge the capital Georgetown.

Guyana’s discovery of oil reserves has the nation split between boosting the economy and preserving the environment

Energy

Guyana is hoping that newly discovered offshore crude reserves can help transform the country’s economy and offset its ongoing poverty crisis. But some people are concerned about what this may mean for the environment.

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A singer sparks outrage for telling the truth about her country’s poverty

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Sujaria's emigration pass.

A journalist tells her great-grandmother’s story as a ‘coolie woman’

Lifestyle & Belief
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TALES AS TALL AS MANGO TREES

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TALES AS TALL AS MANGO TREES

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Conservation and the Spirit World

The most intriguing session I attended at this year’s AAAS meeting was led by Stanford ecologist José Fragoso. In it, Fragoso described how he and his colleagues are working with indigenous groups in Guyana and Brazil to find out how cultural change affects the diversity of species in the surrounding forests and savannas.

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