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Red handed: A truck loaded with coal is spotted inside the Ffos-y-Fran opencast mine in South Wales on May 24, months after it was ordered to stop operating Credit: UVAG/Coal Action Network

1 Jun 2023 5 minute read

Britain’s great coal scandal

The UK’s largest opencast coal mine has ‘illegally’ extracted 300,000 tonnes of coal after being ordered to close. ...

Yemeni girls study in a school destroyed by the war in Taiz City, Yemen. Credit: Shutterstock/Akramalrasny

1 Jun 2023 4 minute read

‘Yemeni women must be given a seat at the table’

Historic peace talks are a glimmer of hope in the world’s worst humanitarian conflict. But the exclusion of Yemeni women’s...

29 May 2023 4 minute read

The interview: Vandana Shiva

The Indian physicist and veteran food sovereignty activist speaks to Amy Hall about a lifetime of keeping...

25 May 2023 4 minute read

The interview: Ayakha Melithafa

The 19-year-old climate activist is making her voice heard across South Africa and beyond. She speaks with Uyapo...

An activist holds a placard featuring Gautam Adani during a protest in Delhi, India on 6 February 2023. ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS/ALAMY

25 May 2023 3 minute read

Coal in a hole

Could the Adani Group’s financial troubles be good news for the climate? Asks Danny Chivers.

A Greenpeace activist holds a sign as he confronts the deep sea mining vessel Hidden Gem, commissioned by Canadian miner The Metals Company, as it returned to port from eight weeks of test mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii, off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico November 16, 2022. REUTERS/Gustavo Graf

23 May 2023 6 minute read

The race is on to stop deep-sea mining

Graeme Green reports on why this is a critical year to stop destructive deep-sea mining from taking hold of...

A scrap dealer is standing in his workshop that has been bulldozed by the Jammu & Kashmir revenue department as part of an ongoing anti-encroachment drive in Srinagar. Credit: Adil Abbas

23 May 2023 6 minute read

Kashmiris are living in fear of demolitions

A government policy to ‘reclaim’ state land has had dire consequences for many families in Kashmir, writes Kasturi...

People pass by damaged cars and buildings at the central market in Khartoum North. Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters. 27 April, 2023

22 May 2023 6 minute read

‘We are the true voice of the people’: Sudan’s civilian resistance is still alive

Can Sudan’s pro-democracy camp still play a role in forging a democratic future for the military-controlled nation? ...

Ugandans at London's LGBT pride parade in 2016. Chris Beckett/Flickr

13 May 2023 3 minute read

Choose your scapegoat

As Uganda passes its anti-gay law, Rosebell Kagumire decries the way faltering governments make scapegoats of...

Flying the flag in Brazil's National Congress. Antonio Cruz/ABr

13 May 2023 3 minute read

Trans representation in Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto reports on trans champions in Brazil's parliament.

Morro do Ouro Gold Mine, Paracatu, Brazil. SkyTruth/Flickr

13 May 2023 2 minute read

Brazilian Blood Gold

Leonardo Sakamoto on Lula's efforts to give Brazil's Indigenous Yanomami communities a reprieve.

Elder Taharakau Stewart (in the middle with cane), is joined by other Māori people during a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on 29 April 2019. The event marked the handing back of the remains of ancestors which had been held as part of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine’s former anthropology collections. JÖRG CARSTENSEN/DPA/ALAMY

2 May 2023 15 minute read

Returning Indigenous ancestors home to New Zealand/Aotearoa

For centuries, museums have held human remains as artefacts. Hana Pera Aoake explored what can be learned...

1 May 2023 1 minute read

The crisis of loneliness

The world began to notice something was awry when ‘ministries of loneliness’ cropped up in Japan and the United Kingdom...

Workers scurry speedily to their destination. Since the 1970s, Singapore has seen the highest increase in pedestrian walking speeds. Calls for effiency in mobility can come back to bite us with reduced empathy and ableist attitudes.ESTHERPOON/Shutterstock

9 May 2023 1 minute read

Why is the world so lonely?

Loneliness and social isolation have become chronic issues across the world. We must resist attempts to close down...

A police barrace at Westminster Parliament, London.

25 Apr 2023 4 minute read

Why do the police want to stop us reporting?

Conrad Landin considers the vital role of New Internationalist – and asks for your support...

A scene from the coup: A tank belonging to Augusto Pinochet's military junta approaches the government palace in 1973. WikiCommons

10 Apr 2023 3 minute read

The two 9-11s

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power. September, a...

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