Who owns the sea?

Without the ocean, climate change would be happening much faster.

Sea-bed mining promises many riches, but at great risk. Should we pause for thought? asks marine biologist Diva Amon.

Living sea; Fewer fish in the sea than ever before; Acid sea; Sea of plastic; Blue economy; Future prospects?; Marine protection.

Can fishers, coastguards and marine activists see off the thieves from powerful nations plundering the seas of West Africa? Aïda Grovestins reports.

The race is on to patent all marine life – and some have got a head start. Marine scientist Robert Blasiak explains to Vanessa Baird what it means.

For Epeli Hau’ofa, by Karlo Mila.

This area is a simmering cauldron for conflict between China and its neighbours – and the US. Mark J Valencia makes sense of the situation.

Human rights at sea by Vanessa Baird.

Personal efforts are definitely worthwhile, but the scale of the problem requires action at a national and international political level, too.

Jeremy Seabrook surveys a political landscape riven with virulent nostalgias which obscure an essential conflict – how to reconcile the needs of the planet with the necessities of economics?

Will shaming employers on social media finally bring justice for Lebanon’s domestic workers? Roshan De Stone and David Suber report from Beirut.

Blake Morrison grew up in Yorkshire – and made his escape from his traditional conservative background via literature. As he discovered writers from other cultures, borders between cultures and nations seemed to fall away, leaving him as a citizen of the world. But since the Brexit referendum he has often felt like a stranger in his own country.

On Hodan Nalayeh by Nanjala Nyabola.

Enrolment does not equal education writes Nilanjana Bhowmick.

The judge who became vigilante – and then ‘God’. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo by Emmanuel Freudenthal.

Libyan renegade warlord.

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

Report from the United States by Husna Rizvi.

Report from Honduras by Rahila Gupta.

Report from Goa, India by Mahima Jain.

Report from northern Brazil by Matthew Ponsford.

Dockers unite; Lamu Breathes; Let there be light; and Who knew?

Praise, blame and all points in between? Give us your feedback.

Her acquaintance with an Urdu poet reveals to Parsa Sanjana Sajid the deep waters of identity and prejudice.

Not welcome.

Without a paddle.

From a protest in London.

Life expectancy vs wealth in São Paulo, Brazil.

Drowning by CamdelaFu (Venezuela).

Facts, figures and photos from Tanzania.

Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso.

Anti-EU sentiment is rising across much of the continent. The European Union’s institutions can appear undemocratic. And the wisdom of its commitment to austerity policies in member states like Greece has been roundly questioned. Almost everyone agrees that the EU needs to be reformed. But is it possible? Hilary Wainwright and Grace Blakeley take sides.

Cartoon by P J Polyp.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Why is public money propping up fossil fuels? Danny Chivers investigates.

More chaos at the border. By Marc Roberts.

Subi Shah speaks to the internationally renowned Bangladeshi photojournalist about his notorious arrest last year and why he’s still not holding back his criticism of the government.

Richard Swift writes of uber-hawk running regime change operations for the United States.

5G. By Kate Evans.

Should I delete my Facebook account? Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

Vanessa Baird dreams on. Or maybe not?

The Sun On My Head; Conspiracy Theories; This Land is Our Land; Kitchen Curse.

Photograph by Ritesh Batra; Phoenix by Camilla Strøm Henriksen.

Songs from the Bardo; At the Party with My Brown Friends.

Peter Whittaker speaks to writer, lawyer and human rights activist Raja Shehadeh about the politics of memory in Palestine and Israel.