Scavenging is on the rise in the US and is no longer the exclusive domain of the poor. Felicity Carus reports on San Francisco's attempts to close down this informal sector and its impact on a burgeoning recycling culture
… income to some of the city’s estimated 8,640 homeless people. Homeless men and women pushing shopping … But San Francisco’s scavengers are not all homeless or disaffected like Victor and …
Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration
… with the growth of urban occupations and homeless populations. 'With the installation …