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ROSALINA XIMENES' EYES were downcast as I leaned forward to kiss her lightly on both cheeks. I caught the...

WHILE THE WORLD watched Ian Thorpe race Pieter van den Hoogenband in the hundred metres freestyle final at the...

By Michael Wesley

CLIMATE CHANGE IS both a major policy issue and a part of popular culture. For many, it has become...

By Michael Heazle

IT WAS SOON after I arrived in Japan that I met the sexpats. The long-term sex holidaymakers. You know...

By Doug Hendrie

I STEERED THE raft with my paddle buried deeply by the stern and we sped down the final drop...

Everybody talks about the weatherbut nobody does anything about it.– Mark TwainTALK OF A hotter, wetter climate is all...

LYING IN BED, under a cotton sheet and a slow-turning fan, I was listening to tropical birds – not...

By Bronwyn Lea

IT WAS AN innocent enough remark. "Looks like rain," he'd said, gesturing toward the bank of clouds looming over...

By Phil Brown

"SIR, OPEN YOUR bags, please." My father lifts his enormous suitcases up on to the counter and unzips them. The...

By Oren Siedler

LIKE OTHER FARMERS in Australia's cropping belt, David Kreig was dismayed by the way the weather seemed to be...

By Robert Milliken

View images of Tuvalu featured in Edition 12: Hot Air at photographer Jocelyn Carlin's website. TATOU NE TUVALU Katoa – "We are all...

By Mark Hayes

AS A STUDENT of Mandarin at Beijing's Tsinghua University in 1999, I made almost monthly visits to the home...

By Chip Rolley