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China’s plastic import ban in numbers
China’s ban on plastic imports will displace more than 110 million tonnes of plastic waste over the next 12 years China’s recent ban on non-industrial plastic imports will be felt across the world....
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Feeding the Galápagos
The Galápagos are often thought of as a unique natural paradise, but they are also home to 30,000 people. In such a remote part of the world, feeding them is increasingly challenging The air has a...
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Bottled gold – the unexpected side effects of recycling in Germany
A German recycling scheme is proving to be a source of relief for those on low-incomes, but is it also having an impact on recycling levels as a whole? For pensioners and the unemployed in Berlin,...
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[FROM THE ARCHIVE] A game of two hemispheres
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that football has had a major impact on our world. We investigate how a lowly sport gained the power to start wars, make millionaires, and prompt a nation to...
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Trapped beneath the Earth
For British cave divers, Chris Jewell and Jim Warny, who had been being rushed out to Thailand to help in this week’s epic rescue operation, the events bore an uncanny echo to a life-and-death struggle...
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The Human Game – Tackling football’s ‘slave trade’
Few would argue with football’s position as the world’s number one sport. But as Mark Rowe discovers, this global popularity is masking a sinister underbelly with human traffickers using the bright...
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Along the New Silk Road – Bridging Eurasia: A look inside Małaszewicze
As part of our monthly series of reports looking at what sort of impact China’s Belt and Road Initiative is having on the local infrastructure projects situated along its route, explorer and China...
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Charles Stevens
With fellow student Tom Micklethwait, Charles is travelling the route of the New Silk Road to explore the impact the initiative is having across the region I study history, but specific interests are...
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Calais: A continuing refugee crisis
Calais’ refugee crisis may not make daily headlines now that its ‘Jungle’ camp has gone, but for over a thousand refugees stranded at the French port city, life is still a daily struggle [widgetkit...
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Sidelining the Redskins – How US sports are facing an identity crisis
Native American communities in the US are devising their own ways of tackling the country’s ‘Mascot problem’ The Seattle Chieftains became the Redhawks in 2000, Arkansas state Indians became the ‘Red...
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City of Culture: returning to Māori roots
The addition of traditional Māori names to Wellington’s urban landscape is proving traditional language can be applicable to 21st century environments From Auckland to Christchurch, New Zealand’s urban...
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Off mic – Why women are still struggling to break football’s punditry glass...
While being a feminist is no longer taboo, women are still missing out on TV’s top sporting spots The BBC’s 2018 Best Paid list names 12 men before it reaches its first woman. Forbes’ 2018 list for the...
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Parallel lives
New statistics suggest rising healthy lifespans in China, at the same time as those in the United States are on the decline A baby born today in China can now, on average, expect to live a longer...
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Get talking – are we losing indigenous languages?
Land rights for the indigenous are still a problem, but is it time to turn our attention to language? According to the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, ‘suppressing indigenous people’s...
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Talc Terror Trail
An investigation reveals how the illegal export of talc, used in numerous household products, is providing significant funds to insurgents in Afghanistan Could baby power be funding terrorism?...
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The Sacred Lake
During her time in Ghana, Sarah Begum experienced the lives of a community that surrounds one of the world’s few lakes situated in an ancient meteor impact crater Approximately one million years ago, a...
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The Social Saving Network
Using WhatsApp to monitor and predict deadly landslides in Colombian informal settlements The year 1987 holds painful significance for the Andean valley city of Medellín. On 27 September, heavy...
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Along the New Silk Road – Piraeus: China’s gateway into Europe
As part of our monthly series of reports looking at the impact China’s BRI project is having on the local infrastructure situated along its route, explorer and China scholar Charles Stevens visits the...
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The Last Englishmen
From Calcutta to the Himalayas, in The Last Englishmen, author Deborah Baker details how towards the end of the British empire its subjects were obsessed with the romantic ideals of explorers, rebels...
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Are lab diamonds the world’s best friend?
After 130 years in the diamond industry De Beers recently announced it would begin selling lab-grown diamonds. But what are lab-diamonds, why all the hype, and what do they mean for the future? Take a...
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