Kiribati — The climate refugee lawsuit that shaped international law, and the phosphate fund that survived where Nauru failed
Kiribati is where the lawsuit first brought climate change into international human rights law, the country that went to buy land in another…
Botswana — The only country that turned diamonds into development, and how they did it
In 1966, Botswana was one of the world's poorest countries. Then diamonds were discovered. Unlike almost every other…
Guyana — The world's newest oil experiment, and we're watching it happen in real time
In 2015, oil was discovered off Guyana's coast, and within years the country became one of the world's fastest-growing economies…
Azerbaijan — Where the world's oil industry began, and a neighboring country with citizenship laws opposite to Armenia
Baku is where the world's first industrial oil well was born, and at one point supplied about half of the world's oil…