“Moscow was a dark place near the end of the 1980s. Liter­ally, dark. It was hard to find a bar to have a drink,” remem­bers Vasilii Shelkov when we start…

“I was the first generation of students that graduated in the Soviet Union without having a job lined up for me,” says Svetlana Bidikhova. “When I started university, few people…

“A lovely little department dedicat­ed to geothermal energy. That’s what I found when I started at the Interna­tional Geothermal Association (IGA) in 2017,” says Marit Brommer, who had left a…

“I grew up in the state of Perak, north of Kuala Lumpur, in the town of Batu Gajah. Being the oldest of eight chil­dren, I felt the responsibility to take…