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Two low-tech experts are preparing a four-month stay in a biosphere in Mexico.

They are either ordinary Russians who don't want to fight or elite kids who use their contacts to dodge the draft.

Revisiting the filming locations of 1988’s Rambo III ‘rented out’ by the Israeli army to Hollywood.

One of the oldest conflicts in the world has flared up again since 2020: the conflict between the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and Morocco.

One year after the fall of Assad, the threat of Islamic State is still present in a divided Syria.

Afour-day festival out in the desert next to the dried-up Aral Sea, attracts locals and foreigners alike to this party in the desert.

The Haitian capital has become a warzone as gangs control larges swathes of the city.

A young woman observes an empty Tehran from her terrace, as Israeli American airstrikes continue.

Corentin and Caroline explore cutting-edge low-tech solutions to meet their electricity and heating needs.

Every year 400,000 people traverse Mexico to try to pass into the USA illegally. The quickest way is to catch the freight train ‘La Bestia’.

French-born Spanish director Olivier Laxe talks about his film Sirat, a prize-winning film at Cannes 2025.

From the deserts of Australia to the steppes of Siberia, no other mammal has colonised more habitats than humans. 

How President El-Sisi has consolidated the army’s grip on power whilst Egyptians struggle with poverty and hunger.

Masha Borzunova meets a Russian deserter who tells how he went from being a war hero to an ostracised traitor of his country.

With ever warmer and drier summers, experts fear that a third of Sicily could become desert by 2030. 

Swedish national Johan Gustafsson had the ordeal of his life when he was kidnapped whilst on a motorbike trip through Africa.

Bolivia's second largest lake, has recently dried up, leaving behind a salt desert where Lake Poopó once was.

ARTE journalist Marieta Frías takes us to southern Spain where a remote desert became an unlikely setting for some classic Westerns.

Opposing the Neom project in Saudi Arabia can get you put in prison or killed.

Mongolia has built a stabile democracy in the shadow of two authoritarian neighbours.