National Geographic - People & Places

Vanishing Venice

Nowhere in Italy, where calamity comes embellished with rococo gestures and embroidered in exclamation points, is there a crisis more beautifully framed than Venice. Neither land nor water, but shimmering somewhere in between, the city lifts like a mirage from a lagoon at the head of the Adriatic. For centuries it has threatened to vanish beneath the waves of the acqua alta, relentlessly regular flooding caused by the complicity of rising tides and sinking foundations, but that is the least of its problems.
Read the full 10 page article and discover the truth about vanishing Venice and what the real problem is, why so many tourists flood the city every year.
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Divining Angkor

From the air, the centuries-old temple appears and vanishes like a hallucination. At first it is no more than a number smudge in the forest canopy of northern Cambodia. Beneath us sprawls the lost city of Angkor, now in ruins and populated mostly by peasant rice farmers..
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China

In today's China, government is decentralised, and people can freely start businesses, find new jobs and move to new homes. Yet China faces an environmental crisis, and is the world's largest consumer. Ask the Chinese youth what has changed, and you'll hear stories of salaries and new cars.
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Persia - Soul of Iran

In this 16 page National Geographic cover article you’ll see how this nation’s past has formed its present. We investigate the current tensions with the West; Iran’s nuclear ambitions, its relationship with Iraq, its opinions on Israel and, of course, how oil affects the relationships Iran has with us and its neighbors.
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The Forgotten Faithful Arab Christians

Read the full 10 page article and discover how Arabs were among the first to be persecuted for the new faith, and the first to be called Christians. Read more into the Crusades (1095 – 1291) and what impact this era had on Arab Christians and Muslims.
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