Filtering by Category: Environment

Street cow chillaxing in Jodhpur, India.

The Street Cows of Jodhpur, India

Added on March 4, 2016 by Jessica Yurasek.

There are cows everywhere.

Heading deep into the jungle on a tributary off the Marañon River in the Northern Peruvian Amazon. — Heading deep into the jungle on a tributary off the Marañon River in the Northern Peruvian Amazon.

Adventures & Oil Spills in the Peruvian Amazon, Part 2

Added on May 12, 2015 by Jessica Yurasek.

We are floating on a giant water salad. Thick, green plants that look like bok choy surround our dugout canoe and stretch infinitely before us on a small tributary off the Marañón River in the remote Peruvian Amazon.

Dawn on the Marañon River, Northern Peruvian Amazon

Adventures & Oil Spills in the Peruvian Amazon, Part 1

Added on January 6, 2015 by Jessica Yurasek.

Within the last six months, five oil spills from a single pipeline have contaminated the indigenous Kukama communities of the Northern Peruvian Amazon. Last month, we attempted to visit two of these sites in order to document the effects and to tell a more complete story of the true cost of oil extraction in the rainforest.