Learning from Indigenous cultures to treat animals as more than just food sources could help us combat the climate crisis.

Helping transform food systems so they serve people around the world starts with taking an active approach to addressing inequalities.

The US has made a dent in Russian cyber criminal gangs. But tensions with Russia and the shadowy nature of hacking keep the threat level high.

Sugar has deep links with slavery in the US, but Black workers weren’t the only ones affected. In post-Civil War Louisiana, Chinese workers also toiled cutting and processing cane.

Although alternative terms have been suggested, the Anthropocene captures the magnitude of the crisis we face.

Major international donors, including the US, China and UK, are pledging to stop funding fossil fuel projects overseas, but they aren’t making the equivalent cuts at home.

The Caribbean has long been the gold standard for Western tourism: but our image of the islands as paradises ripe for our enjoyment is harming their environment and people.

Proposals for new oil and gas pipelines can generate intense debate today, but during World War II the US built an oil pipeline more than 1,300 miles long in less than a year.

Colonialism, political turmoil and unmet citizen promises all lie behind the rise of attacks on foreign-run fossil fuel plants in Mozambique.

When Bostonians in 1721 faced a deadly smallpox outbreak, a new procedure called inoculation was found to help fend off the disease. Not everyone was won over, and newspapers fed the controversy.