In the absence of facts and trusted sources of information, the AI-generated images and rhetoric of dictators circulate ...

Critical minerals are supposed to be our way out of climate chaos, but mining them has its costs. Vanessa Baird investigates.

Small-scale farms play a crucial role in creating global food security. But farmers of small farms often find themselves facing insecure land tenure, climate risk, unequal terms of trade and ...

By dusk four protesters were dead, more than 90 injured and the streets of Leh were silenced under a curfew. Among those killed was Tsewang Tharchin, a former soldier who had once guarded India’s ...

This latest operation must be under­stood in the context of Brazil’s general elections in October 2026. Castro, the governor, aspires to become a senator or perhaps even run for the presidency. And in ...

A series of huge oil extraction projects have been blocked by campaigners in South Africa. How did they do it and what comes next? Over the last five years, $1.6 billion worth of oil and gas projects ...

Is there an ethical way to own a pet cat? Our Agony Uncle advises. For years I’ve dreamed of being able to move into my own home with a garden so I can get my very own cat. But the idea now comes with ...

India’s rightwing have incorporated the promotion of alternative medicine into their nationalist politics, but at what cost, asks Yusra Khan.

Today’s norms are not necessarily the long-standing cultural ‘traditions’ they seem, argues Rosebell Kagumire. A ruling by South Africa’s highest court has sparked intense debate about ‘cultural ...