A big thank you for all your comments and thoughts sent to the Beetle. We had two votes for visiting Burma and one against visiting. What do you think? London…

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Richard Mowll is a civil engineer from Croydon, who travelled to Western Uzbekistan in January 2002 with MSF to rehabilitate a 600 patient TB dispensary. He then went on to…

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Rank Country Area (square kilometers) Russia (17,075,400) Canada (9,976,140) United States (9,629,091) China (9,596,960) Brazil (8,511,965) Australia (7,686,850) India (3,287,590) Argentina (2,776,890) Kazakhstan (2,717,306) Sudan (2,505,810)

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Dear Reader Please let me introduce my country, Indonesia to you. I am a native born Indonesian and have lived here all my life. My life is very simple: I…

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Puerto Maldonado, Peru: The Piedras Biodiversity Center (affiliated with Tambopata Expeditions) is looking for for 2 volunteers to help out with an amphibian survey scheduled for November/December of this year.…

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A recent UK scientific study on the efficacy of sun creams says that although they help prevent sunburn, lotions fail to block out the harmful ultraviolet rays which can cause…

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Why is that the low cost airlines don’t offer frequent flier awards? It seems that unlike the US, none of the European low cost carriers have frequent-flier programs. Southwest Airlines,…

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Iris takes part in a barbecue in Brazil. We went to a little town called Ouro Preto, in Brazil, which is in the centre of a mining area, which produced…

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Meeting news from our branches around the world.

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What is Chagas disease? Also called American trypanosomiasis, Chagas disease is an infection caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. Chagas disease primarily affects low income people living in rural areas.…

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