Features
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Ending the oil age
Change is coming. Jess Worth examines whether growing pressure for divestment and disruption can knock Big Oil off its perch.
Madness on the Mekong
Tom Fawthrop reports from Southeast Asia, where a series of proposed dams could trigger a food crisis.
Future conditional
Expect the unexpected. Concluding thoughts - and a look ahead. Vanessa Baird contemplates the future of Cuba.
'Our main crop is hope'
Meet Cuba's highly successful organic farmers. Why are they getting short shrift, when the country needs more homegrown food?
Cuba's big bet
It sounds perverse, but in the shadow of the US embargo, Cuba is building a gigantic port and free trade zone... Vanessa Baird looks into the issue.
'Sex is too important to me'
Vanessa Baird explores how life has changed for LGBT people.
The 'shame' of pale and male
Sexism and racism get official recognition in Cuba. Vanessa Baird explores an issue that's long been kept silent.
Making space
Cuba is inching towards a free media and political choice - or not. Vanessa Baird explores.
Winners and losers
The streets are alive with micro-enterprise. Who benefits? asks Vanessa Baird.
A new Cuba in the making
The communist island is opening up for business. Vanessa Baird begins an investigation into what's going on - and what it means.
An indivisible and living whole, from the mountains to the sea
A New Zealand river has been granted unprecedented legal rights after a century of Maori pressure. Jen Wilton reports.
How Mother Teresa is torturing Kolkata
S Bedford exposes horrific negligence at a Missionaries of Charity centre in India – and asks when the order will be brought to book.
Bunker economics
Phillip Pilkington on the delusion of worshipping the gold standard.
View from the ridge
Jewellery designer Jane Theobald's meditation on the true price of the shiny stuff.
A tale of two Indias
How sinking cash into gold is rocking the country's economy and deepening the wealth divide, by Jaideep Hardikar.
The myth of ethical gold
Certification schemes notwithstanding, clean gold is a bit of a scam, says Stephanie Boyd.
Churning up the cloud forest
Roxana Olivera on a Peruvian community's struggles to defend its rights against a mining corporation's dirty tricks.
Gold - the facts
Where does it come from? Who buys it? What do they do with it? What do they do with it? And the impacts of it.
Stop the gold rush
Richard Swift argues that our appetite for the shiny metal is both pointless and dangerous.
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