"One thing is broken: my heart." When Turkish journalist Arzu Yildiz reported a major scoop in 2014, she had little idea that the story might lead to the end of her journalism career, the loss…
On this edition of Global Journalist, the second in our two-part series on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. For this installment, our focus shifts to North America, where Canada legalized physician-assisted suicide in 2016 after a…
From the Arctic to the Amazon, Joanna Pinneo has made spotlighting climate change a specialty Twenty years ago this month, National Geographic's cover featured Joanna Pinneo's iconic photograph of a sleeping Tuareg mother and child…
"You don’t see girls playing sports. I was the only one amongst 300 to 400 boys." When Maria Toorpakai began her athletics career, she used not only a different name – but a different gender. …
For hundreds of years, European explorers sought a direct sea route from Europe to Asia. Now as Arctic ice melts, just such a route is opening across northern Russia. In August a Russian-owned tanker carrying…
Just 12 languages are spoken by two-thirds of the world's seven billion inhabitants. For the globe's 370 million indigenous people, keeping their native languages alive in an increasingly interconnected world is an enormous challenge. On this…
A Canadian court has ordered a reporter for Vice News to hand over logs of his instant messenger chats with a man who allegedly traveled to Syria to fight for the Islamic State, or ISIL.…
"He said to me that it was dangerous outside because he knew that a photo had been given to snipers to shoot me." Nazila Fathi's trip to Canada had been planned as a family vacation…
“If I go to restaurants, my family knows that I must sit in the back in a corner and far away from the windows, where I can have my back covered.” Luis Horacio Nájera got…
'When people said to me, “You are a traitor to Islam because you stop Muslims,” I say to people that Islam does not support terrorism and the Prophet, peace be upon him, is not a…
