Daniela Petrova

Leslie T. Sharpe: If the Critters Fail, We Are All Going to Fail

The Trump administration's rapid dismantling of environmental protections in the name of economic growth has triggered an equally aggressive response from those committed to confronting the threat of climate change. But as environmental discourse grows increasingly politicized, what is often missing is simple expression of love for nature and a recognition of its transformative power.

A Vacation With a Purpose: Fighting Trafficking in Thailand

Sarah Porter, a former director of development and partnerships at Ecpat-USA and a leader of our trip, said that the group wanted to show people "that how they travel and where they choose to stay really does make a difference." Our other leader was a local tour guide from Altruvistas, Adisak Kaewrakmuk.

Sex trafficking in Brooklyn film demands visibility, accountability: "Everyone knows that the...

Sex trafficking is a multibillion-dollar industry. You can sell a drug only once. But you can sell a body multiple times a day. What many Americans don't realize is that sex trafficking happens in the United States. Danielle Rose, 25, took it upon herself to expose the ugly truth that it happens in her native Brooklyn.

One U.S. woman's vision is changing the lives of girls in rural Afghanistan

The first graduating class of the Zabuli Education Center. (Beth Murphy) Afghanistan has the highest gender disparity in primary education in the world, and girls from poor rural families are the least likely to go to school. Estimates suggest just four percent of such girls complete their primary education.

Moving the Needle

The filmmaker and journalist on the future of girls' education in Afghanistan, "white savior narratives," and documentary as an antidote to compassion fatigue. "En route to Kabul...I met an elderly woman who was traveling from Omaha to visit her extended family in Afghanistan," writes documentarian Beth Murphy in the Huffington Post.

The scourge of human trafficking: It's not just other countries' problem

January has been designated Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month by presidential proclamation . Millions of women, men and children around the world are subjected to forced labor, domestic servitude or the sex trade. What many don't know is that this modern-day slavery happens right here in the United States.

Global Kleptocracy

The foreign policy expert on global corruption, violent extremism, and how the West "has lost the balance between rectitude and liberty." Image by Kaveh Sardari. "Acute government corruption may in fact lie at the root of some of the world's most dangerous and disruptive security challenges-among them the spread of violent extremism," argues Sarah Chayes, author of the recent book Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security .

Walking On Water: Why I Loved the Crowds at Christo's Floating Piers

It's one thing to experience great European art by donning ear buds and ambling through the Louvre or the Uffizi. It's something else entirely to take off your shoes, roll up your jeans and walk all over the art. That's what I did last week at the opening of Christo's latest installation,"The Floating Piers," on Italy's Lake Iseo.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 'Floating Piers,' Just 40 Years Late | Artinfo

For 16 days beginning on Saturday, visitors to Christo's latest installation, " The Floating Piers " (June 18-July 3, 2016), will learn what it's like to walk on water as they stroll across Lake Iseo, Italy's fourth-largest lake, on a 16-meter-wide floating walkway that will undulate with the water's movement.

POV: Float On: Christo's "Floating Piers"

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Curtis Sittenfeld: Pride and Prejudice Then & Now

Photograph taken by Josephine Sittenfeld. "Welcome to the 21st Century!" Kitty tells her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, in Curtis Sittenfeld's new novel, . But she might as well be addressing us, the readers.

POV: Opera's Newest Star: Sonya Yoncheva

American Way :: May 2016

Unplugged in Patagonia

It was Election Day back in the United States, but having been off the grid in Chile for four days, I had all but forgotten about it. My world at that moment consisted of the trail, the wind and the boat we were scheduled to board upon reaching Lago Grey.

Christo's Floating Piers: What's the Big Idea?

A Day of Sightseeing and Partying in Sofia, the Capital of Bulgaria

This post is hosted on the Huffington Post's Contributor platform. Contributors control their own work and post freely to our site. If you need to flag this entry as abusive, send us an email. "Serdica is my Rome," claimed the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, referring to the city that would later become the capital of Bulgaria under the name of Sofia.

Midnight Guests | Misadventures

We began our hike on a late July morning, the day before our anniversary. At the foot of the trail, a large poster warned that this was grizzly bear country. As he passed it, Sebastian confidently tapped the bear spray hanging on his belt.

6 Reasons Why Family Bike Trips Are Awesome

When my boyfriend first invited me to join his family on a bike trip, I thought he was joking. Family vacations can be trying at best and this wasn't even my family. But I just returned from my second cycling trip with them and am already looking forward to our next time.

Biking With the Family Through Puglia

I was cycling at the back of my boyfriend's family, five members of the Burkhardt clan. Olive groves stretched as far as I could see on both sides of the rolling road. Some of the trees were more than a thousand years old, their gnarled twisted trunks dark against the red Puglian soil.

Partying Like a Tsar in Sofia, the Nightlife Capital of Bulgaria

"Serdica is my Rome," claimed the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, referring to the city that would later become the capital of Bulgaria under the name of Sofia. Start your night early with a tour of the catacombs under St. Sofia Church after which the city was named.

Stretched to the Max

Coffee Talk

A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

Speaker's Corner: When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different? 08.27.08 | 2:30 PM ET Nothing moves under the scorching afternoon sun.

Living alone, I learned to be happy single. So why move in with my boyfriend?

Slowly, methodically, I enumerated my boyfriend's many virtues: honesty, empathy, patience and generosity. He's handsome and smart, funny and thoughtful. He's adventurous; he cooks me elaborate meals. My therapist interrupted to ask: "So what's all the anxiety about moving in, then?" She is an incredibly smart woman.

Why My Husband and I Started Searching for Another Woman

At the age of 37, I finally began looking at women the way men do. "Check out the Russian girl," I tell my husband. "Yeah, but look at her chin," he says. "How about this Slovak girl?" "Too big. Why do you think there's no photo of her from the waist down?"

Outside the lens of the camera, a wild safari awaits

I'm sitting in the outdoor bar of the Kenya Wildlife Service campsite in Nairobi, enjoying a soft drink. Two Australian girls are at the table next to me, and we start chatting. They've just come back from the Masai Mara National Reserve, one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks, where my friend and I are headed tomorrow for a two-day safari.