Erupting with a vengeance

Cutting log exports

The cell snatchers

And now it is the turn for human cells to be patented on the sly by scientific vampires', as shows the bizarre case of a Hagahai tribal male

BROKEN DISPUTE

Lessons from the fringe of the world

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Journey into the market-place

Papua New Guinea has come a long way from a society that began cultivating crops in 8000 BC and had no need for a market economy. It came in …

Full of treasure

AT CROSSROADS

Making profits for the West

While western investors are lining their pockets with Papua New Guinea's rich natural resources, all the government is getting in return is a …

Wisdom from an obscure archipelago

In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market …

Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea after 18 years; experts say it was avoidable

They put the blame on poor vaccination coverage and unsanitary living conditions

West Papuans: An indigenous people that the world forgot

More than 300 different Papuan tribes of ethnic Melanesian origin on the western half of New Guinea have been brutally suppressed by the …

Give us our due

Developing countries seek payment for preserving forests

How Bougainville may be a new country in the Pacific and why that matters to China

Bougainville has voted to become a new country, but the journey to independence is not yet over  

Wisdom from an obscure archipelago

In Down To Earth's first Country Report, ANIL AGARWAL and SUNITA NARAIN look at Papua New Guinea, its short but volatile transition to the market …

Underwater ship graves

Seventy years after the largest seaborne invasion in history, World War II shipwrecks still pose environmental risks

Papua New Guinea cabinet votes against copper mine

New species found

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