• ‘Stop the poison’

    Peruvian women call on Anglo-Swiss mining giant Glencore, investors and UK and EU parliamentarians to take action on toxic drinking water. Vanessa Baird reports.

  • Playing dominoes in central Bridgetown, Barbados on 15 November 2021, a couple of weeks before the ceremony to swear in Sandra Mason as president. JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES

    How Barbados ditched the Queen

    Amy Hall reports from Barbados on abolishing the British monarchy and the legacies of colonialism.
  • Slum dwellers receive free food during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to limit the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ahmedabad, India, March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave

    Those most at risk

    Husna Rizvi on how the virus will impact those already living in confinement.​

  • A view of Jamji Tea Estate operated by Ekaterra and previously by Unilever. Evicted Kenyans violently pushed out by colonial era settlers are calling for justice. ANTHONY LANG’AT

    Justice from the King?

    Ahead of a royal visit, communities violently evicted by colonial era settlers are calling for justice. Anthony Lang’at reports.

  • China in charge

    Yohann Koshy on the ironies and contradictions of what one day might be called the Chinese century.

  • Throughout history migrants have often been treated as a source of disease and ‘contagion’. Immigrant children are examined on arrival at Ellis Island, New York, 1911. Credit: Bettmann/Getty

    How fear infected the border

    Ruben Andersson traces the roots of a Freudian fixation.

  • Steve Chandra Savale speaks to Subi Shah about music for spiritual change and social justice.

    Spotlight: Steve Chandra Savale of Asian Dub Foundation

    Steve Chandra Savale speaks to Subi Shah about music for spiritual change and social justice.

  • UN flag

    Feminists challenge inaction at UN summit

    Conservative anti-rights groups, and the failure of rich nations to take responsibility for climate change, threatened to block progress at this year’s women’s rights conference, writes Umyra Ahmad.

  • Fossil fuels – a journey in time

    A short history of dependency.

  • Coal-fired power station

    How shadow courts threaten the climate

    An international energy agreement could leave governments across the Global South exposed to expensive lawsuits from corporate investors. Juliet Ferguson of Investigate Europe reports.

  • Credit: Ocean Warriors Wild Coast

    Saving the Wild Coast from Big Oil

    Mike Loewe reports from South Africa on the community fighting to stop Shell from exploration along its wildlife-rich shores.

  • Fighting the fossils

    Profiles of groups from Palestine, Mozambique, Uganda and India who are saying no to new oil and gas infrastructure.

  • ‘I’ve seen how it affects people’

    As opposition and protest continues against a new high-speed rail network in the UK, Denise Laura Baker meets some of those taking a stand against HS2 along the line.

  • Hindu women offer prayers to the sun god by venturing into the foam-coated waters of the Yamuna River (a major tributary of the Ganges) in New Delhi, India. The river is responsible for 70 per cent of the city’s water supply but is severely polluted at this stretch. Recently city authorities have taken to deploying blowers to push back the foam from the banks during festivals, so that the faithful can take a holy dip. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS

    Rivers: holy waters

    We need thriving rivers in order for life on Earth to flourish. But often how we treat them shows little understanding of this basic principle. Dinyar Godrej ventures into the maelstrom.

  • How can famines be ended?

    To wipe out mass starvation we must engage with the politics that drive it, argues Alex de Waal.

  • Catching the cops

    Aboriginal people are using a new app to record and report police brutality. Will it help break Australia’s culture of impunity? Ian Lloyd Neubauer reports.

  • At this rate, the UK’s aid programme will be gone by Christmas

    The Department for International Development has become a lightning rod for rightwing anger. And with a new Conservative leadership race set to begin, its days may be numbered. But Mark Nowottny sees hope in ‘bold and…

  • The alternative book review

    Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith; The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter; Silicon Values by Jillian C York; Abolishing the Police edited by Koshka Duff.

  • Following the police killing of George Floyd, 300 people gather outside the Minnesota capitol building to demand reparations from the United States government for years of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, redlining, ​and violence against black people from police in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 19, 2020. Credit: Fibonacci Blue

    Reparations – an idea whose time has come?

    Does a racially just future need to include reparations for transatlantic slavery or is that a distraction from achieving equality for future generations? KA Dilday and Kehinde Andrews disagree on…

  • Who owns the sea?

    Vanessa Baird examines the free-for-all consensus when it comes to the world’s oceans, and its implications for our future.