Environment
This section considers how we can build a world that works both for the planet and for its people. We draw attention to the perils of deep sea mining and continued coal extraction while considering solutions to the environmental crisis through interview pieces and critical analysis of current, technological solutions.
The road to food sovereignty
Peasants, not industrial agriculture, are the way to feed the world, argue Pat Mooney and Nnimmo Bassey.
Arvind Gupta: making toys from trash
Making learning fun for young minds. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.
What is Robert Mugabe’s legacy?
Reporting from Zimbabwe, Nhau Mangirazi examines the legacy of nearly four decades of Mugabe rule.
How corporate giants are automating the farm
Precision agriculture is where it’s at – according to the corporate giants. Jim Thomas inspects their plans.
Who is Palau’s marine sanctuary really for?
Is Palau's marine reserve as good as it sounds – or a route to luxury tourism?
We need to talk more about Storm Ophelia
The West is not learning its lessons fast enough, says Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik.
Monbiot: ‘we need that new political narrative’
The acclaimed journalist talks to Nick Dowson about how to get out of the mess we’re in.
Agribusiness seizes Brazilian power
Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.
Deadliest year for eco-defenders
For environmental defenders 2016 was the deadliest year on record, writes Kelsi Farrington.
The people, the mine and the World Bank
A mining firm is suing Romania over an environmentalist decision. By Alessio Perrone.
Environmentalists are victors, not victims
Environmental defenders are dying, but winning important fights, writes Fran Lambrick.
Is water the new drug for Mexico’s cartels?
What it's like when narcos run your privatized water system, Tamara Pearson reports.
Newsweek’s climate change hypocrisy
The magazine’s climate change warning stinks of hypocrisy, writes Leo Barasi.
Flood Narmada Valley with anti-dam resistance
Protesters in Madhya Pradesh kick-off a hunger strike, opening new chapter in anti-dam struggle, writes Defne Gonenc.
Lessons from India's thirst economy
Fiona Broom on citizens caught between climate change and profiteers.-
The People vs Arctic Oil
Environmental groups are suing the Norwegian government after it handed out new licences to drill in the Arctic for the first time in 20 years. 
Sacrifice Zone: BP, Freeport and the West Papuan independence struggle
Connor Woodman reveals the ties that bind transnational mining companies to the Indonesian occupation.
A bee-friendly path to a healthier future
In Italy, organic farmers are helping to keep pollinators – and crops – flourishing.
Then & Now
A photographic account of changes over the years in: housing; water; education; health; sanitation; food and farming; technology; and women.
‘We are slowly being killed by this mine’
The British-Australian mine of Cerro Matoso has been linked to birth defects, pollution, poverty and paramilitary pay-offs. Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik investigates.
Climate Con: why a new global deal on aviation emissions is really bad news
A new climate deal is expected to be agreed upon soon by the International Civil Aviation Organization, is a cop-out, writes Oscar Reyes.
Global protests erupt against British mining company Vedanta
Critics are protesting the company’s reported practice of pollution, tax evasion and capital flight. Miriam Rose reports.
In Venezuela's difficult times the grassroots are stronger
The time has come for rural communities to play an important role in the country, reports Tamara Pearson.
Here and no further, mass action against coal
This photo and video gallery surveys just some of the civil disobedience that recently took place in Germany.
One woman’s victory against a mining giant in Peru
Máxima Acuña has just won the Goldman Prize for her resistance against a gold mine – but why are women’s bodies on the frontlines of resistance to extractivism? asks Sian Cowman.
Certified nonsense
Sustainable forestry may be an oxymoron. Chris Lang finds some holes in the system.
Forest bathing
Escaping the pressures of modern life in Japan. By Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.
A burning problem
Nithin Coca reports from Indonesia on the expansion of oil palm plantations in the rainforests of Sumatra.
Last stand
The world’s last great woodlands are fast disappearing – with untold consequences for the environment and for us. Time to stop the destruction, argues Wayne Ellwood.
Ocean litter-pick off the Netherlands
Researchers from the Ocean Clean Up will place a 100-kilometre-long floating barrier off the Dutch coastline, Beulah Maud Devaney reports.
Cowspiracy: stampeding in the wrong direction?
There’s much to admire in the documentary but its political framing and a major error threaten to undermine its message, writes Danny Chivers.
Switching on to energy democracy
Popular participation, social ideals and ecological sustainability are key attributes of sustainable systems, Claire Fauset writes.
2016: Time to take the leap
Naomi Klein and her team speak to Marienna Pope-Weidemann about the significance of The Leap Manifesto.
