Features

Femke Wijdekop makes the case for Ecocide to become a crime under international law.

Jim Thomas on the winners and losers of emerging technologies.

What will it take to get electricity to Africa’s rural poor? Ruth Nyambura explores.

Technology, whether low or high, needs to be appropriate and within reach to make a difference.

Simon Trace on the skewed priorities of medical research.

Peasant farmers resisting the violence of agribusiness. By Nils McCune.

Technology can be a big enabler – yet the difference in terms of what’s available to rich and poor is vast.

The world's poor are still losing out. They need a better deal, argues Dinyar Godrej.

Good for corporations, but what about the pupils? Adam Unwin and John Yandell consider the impact of edu-businesses.

Dominik Sipiński reports on the rise of a nationalist Poland.

Diana Beresford-Kroeger unveils the hidden bio-chemistry of trees.

Forest communities are under siege in Cambodia, says Fran Lambrick.

Facts and figures about trees and forests, from carbon control to biodiversity.

Sustainable forestry may be an oxymoron. Chris Lang finds some holes in the system.

Escaping the pressures of modern life in Japan. By Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.

It happens every year: thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest are torched to clear land for palm oil, timber and other agribusiness operations. It’s a perfect storm of destruction. Nithin Coca reports from Sumatra.

The world’s last great woodlands are fast disappearing – with untold consequences for the environment and for us. Time to stop the destruction, argues Wayne Ellwood.

Fiona Broom reports from Nepal on the scandal of the ‘orphanage industry’.

Saudi Arabia – birthplace of violent Islamic puritanism – is playing a dangerous game, writes Alastair Crooke.

An interview with Julian Assange.