Going global . Shared Interest is a UK-based social lender that supports farmers and handcraft producers in 47 countries around the world. From sphagnum moss farmers in Peru to coffee farmers in ...

The Children’s Society says groomers often use offers of food and clothes to gain the trust of young people before sexually abusing them, forcing them into slave labour or into criminal activities ...

“Fine words” that “must now translate into action” – that was Greenpeace’s verdict on the UN Ocean Conference, which wrapped up in Nice last weekend. The summit offered some signs of progress in the ...

There are no lenses through which the situation in Gaza looks anything but desperate. But for young Palestinian refugees who fled to Egypt, a photography project has offered an outlet to express their ...

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Namibia is the driest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, and home to two of the world’s most ancient deserts, the Kalahari and the Namib. The capital, Windhoek, is sandwiched between them, 400 miles away ...

The UK’s factories were the engine rooms of the Industrial Revolution, introducing the world to new ways of working, making and consuming. Can two ‘fixing factories’ in London help do the same for the ...

Efforts to improve access to electricity in developing nations are bearing fruit, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), published in October. It found that the number of ...

1. The Feminist Bookshop, Brighton. Since opening in November 2019, the Feminist Bookshop has tripled its stock, launched a series of events and hosted a festival alongside Afrori books, which ...

I picture living there. Drinking coffee on a leafy balcony as day breaks over Utrecht. According to Pathius, 60 of the 420 apartments will be “affordable”.

Speaking of subaquatic discoveries… One of the UK’s largest seagrass meadows has been discovered off the Cornish coast. The 359-hectare (887-acre) site was found in St Austell Bay during an acoustic ...

1. The world entered a ‘golden age’ of medicine. The burgeoning medical revolution was a major theme of 2023. “We are seeing a pace of progress that has not been witnessed for 100 years,” Bertalan ...