Cooper Thomas

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Fires in Indonesia

Published on November 9, 2015

Fires in Indonesia, November 1–7, 2015.

DRC Land Cover

Published on September 15, 2015

I produced these maps for internal distribution at the World Resources Institute. Though similar, these maps appeared in…

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A Tale of Two Cities (…in Central Asia)

Published on August 19, 2015

Bishkek lies just 30 kilometers from the Kazakh border, and another 200 kilometers from Almaty, the cultural and…

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Heart of Asia thematic maps

Published on August 10, 2015

Toward the end of my stay in Kyrgyzstan, I was contacted by a Bishkek-based researcher in need of…

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Lakes in the Mountains (and the Roads that Lead to Them)

Published on July 24, 2015

Full disclosure: I’m not in Kyrgyzstan anymore. My Fulbright fellowship concluded a couple weeks ago, and I’m writing…

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Buildings That I Love, Part Four: Experimental 18-Story Apartment Building

Published on June 15, 2015

Welcome to the fourth installment of Buildings That I Love, an ongoing exploration of Bishkek’s architectural curiosities. You…

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There and Back Again: Burana Tower

Published on June 4, 2015

The Kyrgyz are historically a semi-nomadic people, and they’ve left behind few permanent traces of their two-thousand-year existence…

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When in Arslanbob

Published on June 4, 2015

Dear friends: on Monday, I wrote a detailed report of my visit to Arslanbob, but I somehow managed…

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