‘At first the idea of removing the dams seemed absurd and unattainable,’ says Annelia Hillman, a member of the Yurok Tribe, ‘but we decided we had to try.’ Hillman is talking about the world’s biggest dam removal project to date, which is moving forw

Gingerly, I took my feet out of my slippers and felt them squelch into the riverside mud. Then, leaning over into the flow as far as I could, I upended the plastic bag so that its contents tipped out. Thus a part of my mother’s ashes landed into the

Europe’s neo-nazi problem has been growing. The horror of the Nazis’ atrocities in Europe is fading from living memory with the passing of the last survivors of the Holocaust, and farright politicians have used this historic distance to manipulate th

On the bank of the Méyé River, women wash laundry as children fill jerry cans with water for bathing and cooking. Clothes are laid out to dry on rocks that dot the river’s edge as the children begin lugging their family’s water supply home. Rolling d

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‘My art is anchored in the human context,’ says Ukrainian-Tunisian artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke speaking to me from Berlin. ‘I am concerned about the core questions of humanity. We all deserve to live in peace, to eat, sleep, learn and grow. Issues such

In September 2013 a gunshot rang out during a demonstration outside Mongolia’s State Palace in the capital Ulaanbaatar. No-one came to any harm. But the damage it did to a popular movement to protect the country’s rivers made big ripples. But let’s t

The constituency office was empty on the drizzly Saturday morning that artist and theatre maker Lorna Rees strung up her knickers. ‘No-one should be able to photo my pants unless I want them to,’ read the slogan hastily scrawled across the freshly un

by Gwenno (Heavenly Recordings, LP, DL) gwenno.info In the late-1980s, when Reykjavik’s most famous band, The Sugarcubes, was at its height, someone dim in the audience bellowed at its singer: ‘Speak English!’ Björk, lead singer, shot back: ‘Learn Ic

Ahead of 2024 elections, the Zimbabwe government is pushing through a law that civil society groups say could restrict their freedom and quash dissent. The Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill, likely to be law by the end of 2022, wil

The thundering roar of an F-35 fighter plane rips through the tranquillity of the snow carpeted Norwegian landscape. Its silhouette is just visible under the thick layer of clouds. Then, all is silent again. During this NATO exercise, soldiers act ou

P&O Ferries unceremoniously dismissed 800 UK-based seafarers in March 2022. The new crew of the European Causeway ferry were among the workers hired to replace them – on far cheaper pay rates to their predecessors. P&O says the new Larne-Cairnryan cr

165 major rivers in the world, according to most estimates. Minor rivers (many of which are tributaries) number in the thousands. 64% of rivers >1,000km in length are no longer free-flowing.1 <10% of river basins are protected by law. 2 263 transboun

Ndongo S Sylla believes neo-colonialism is an outdated term. More worrying for him is the trend of Afro-liberalism, which sees African elites allied with corporate transnational interests. We speak over the phone from the Senegalese capital, where he