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MARIA ELENA, Chile |  March 31, 2017 | The Washington Post On the solar farms of the Atacama Desert, the workers dress like astronauts. They wear bodysuits and wraparound sunglasses, with thick canvas headscarves to shield them from the radiation. The sun is so intense and the air so dry that seemingly nothing survives. Across vast, rocky wastes blanched of color, there are … [Read more...] about ‘A solar Saudi Arabia’ | While Trump promotes coal, Chile and others are turning to cheap sun power

Will Worley | April 2, 2017 | The Independent Resignation syndrome, or uppgivenhetssyndrom, has been diagnosed in 60 children this year Authorities in Sweden are attempting to solve a problem that appears unique to its child refugees - uppgivenhetssyndrom or "resignation syndrome". The condition causes healthy youngsters to deteriorate into a comatose-like state after … [Read more...] about Refugee children in Sweden are falling into coma-like states on learning their families will be deported

Ed Helmore | Sunday 2 April 2017 | The Guardian New York art world bitterly divided over ‘cultural appropriation’ of 1955 photograph of murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till It is one of the most powerful images to emerge from the racism that infected the southern states of America in the 1950s – the photograph of a badly beaten 14-year-old boy, lynched after being falsely … [Read more...] about The painting that has reopened wounds of American racism

Stephen Williams | 28 March 2017 | New African Vincent Hiribarren is a lecturer in World History at King’s College, London. His work has led him to study many colonial-era archives of European countries that had a presence in Africa. Stephen Williams went to meet him.  Vincent Hiribarren is not perhaps a typical academic – he is too young and too informal. But it was clear … [Read more...] about How the Europeans covered their backs by removing colonial archives