The burgeoning nickel industry in Indonesia has swallowed up vast swathes of forest and farmland that has been the lifeblood of the indigenous people for millennia.
Fuelled by a chronic recruitment crisis, health chiefs are being bounced into handing over an estimated £500 million a year to fill empty locum shifts with agency staff.
Kathleen Kelley remembers her son, Nico, as 'a little burst of sunshine'. On a rainy day in Manhattan last May, he took a few puffs of a weed vape - and everything turned to darkness.
The bizarre dispute between the local farming community and animal rights campaigners has sparked rowdy protests in Newfane, a usually quiet rural neighborhood in Niagara County.
When a friend of Phil and Gay Courter opened a case of gold at their Florida home, their jaws dropped to the floor. But they knew nothing of the extraordinary tale that lay behind the loot.
There are now growing fears that an extraordinary population boom is turning the previously 'hassle free' metropolis into the next San Francisco, a worldwide symbol of urban decay.