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Old electronic equipment is toxic waste. However, a huge amount of this electronic scrap is exported illegally to Third World countries, where valuable materials like copper are ripped out with bare hands, usually by children, releasing dioxins in the process.
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Places have vanished, changed or sprung to life. Twenty years after the fall of the Wall, Berlin's townscape is experiencing a fundamental shift in meaning, a belated consequence of unification.
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A story that begins with swirls of burning plastic in a West African slum and ends with a news item we have all heard: “Economic refugees drown in Mediterranean”.
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A young woman roams Hong Kong alone. The dragons of her childhood still fly through the city, but its residents seem to be turning to stone.
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Its global combustion has left traces all over the planet: birds fallen from heaven, dead soldiers and sunken villages. An apocalyptic soundscape that tells of humankind's encounter with oil, the Earth’s black blood.
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Germany runs up new debts every year – and the old debts remain. A reporter investigates a process with dimensions and impacts that are almost beyond mortal understanding.
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Shanghai: a dead fish swallows a snowflake and a girl in a strange hat watches the river. A melodious quest for reality combines literary experiences with life in a metropolis changing daily.
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European emigrants blaze a trail through the Peruvian jungle to their promised paradise. After a hundred years of solitude, a road links their village to a world that has long forgotten them.
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Our search begins with the tiny printed label »Made in Vietnam« on a pair of trainers. It takes a reporter from a Berlin department store to deep inside the corporate world of Adidas.
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Kurfürstenstrasse – K for short – is a red light district in Berlin and a haunt for drug pushers. It is a sinister attraction to many, and everyone wonders why? But this bewildering street provides no answers.
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Jenny is twenty-one years old and has already been dead once. An overdose. Once she could speak again and had relearned walking and everything else, she went back to where it all began.
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It seems to have everything a soldier could want: its own gym, its own cinema, church services. But the soldiers spend more time thinking about the girls they left behind. Here in the camp, they don’t see much of Afghanistan.
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Launched in the sixties, the luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is still cruising. Her passengers and crew sail the seven seas shrouded in the fog of a distant age.
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Lisa is fifteen. She will put up with a lot to earn money for partying. She prefers not to remember the past and dares not contemplate the future.
