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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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To mark International Women’s Day, we’re shining a light on 24 inspiring women who may have escaped your radar. From food to foreign policy, and from electronics to economics, they’re all changing the ...

2. Not even a ‘greenlash’ could stall surging renewables. A poor show for green parties in the EU elections and incoming US president Donald Trump’s promise to “drill, baby, drill” could not take the ...

For centuries, male land inheritance in the DRC has stymied women’s access to their own livelihoods. Now, in one region, women are pushing back – opening up the possibility of economic independence ...

You might be blown away to know that the tiny house pictured used to stand 100 metres in the air as a major part of a wind turbine. With an average lifespan of 20 to 25 years, estimates based on ...

Scientists develop a plastic that dissolves at sea. As delegates arrived in South Korea to thrash out a UN treaty to cut plastic pollution, Japanese researchers this week hailed a new “environmentally ...

Speaking of air pollution policies … Expanding London’s ultra-low emissions zone (Ulez) has had a “positive impact” on air quality in the city’s outer boroughs, where it has reduced nitrogen oxide ...

Of 200 UK schools surveyed by the Forest School Association (FSA) in 2021, as many as two-thirds have reported an increase in demand for places since March 2020. Some say they are booked solid for the ...