PEOPLE
Parallel lives
Aug 01, 2018
Written by
Chris Fitch
New statistics suggest rising healthy lifespans in China, at the same time as those in the United States are on the decline
Off mic: why women are still struggling to break football’s punditry glass ceiling
Jul 31, 2018
Written by
Sophie Donovan
While being a feminist is no longer taboo, women are still missing out on TV’s top sporting spots
City of culture: returning to Māori roots
Jul 31, 2018
Written by
Chris Fitch
The addition of traditional Māori names to Wellington’s urban landscape is proving traditional language can be applicable to 21st century environments
Sidelining the Redskins – How US sports are facing an identity crisis
Jul 24, 2018
Written by
Abigail Spink
Native American communities in the US are devising their own ways of tackling the country’s ‘Mascot problem’
Calais: A continuing refugee crisis
Jul 23, 2018
Written by
Katie Burton
Calais’ continuing refugee crisis may not make daily headlines now that its ‘Jungle’ camp has gone, but for over a thousand refugees stranded at the French port city, life is still a daily struggle
Charles Stevens: China scholar and explorer
Jul 20, 2018
With fellow student Tom Micklethwait, Charles is travelling the route of the New Silk Road to explore the impact the initiative is having across the region
Along the New Silk Road – bridging Eurasia: a look inside Małaszewicze
Jul 19, 2018
Written by
Charles Stevens
As part of our monthly series of reports looking at the impact China’s Belt and Road Initiative is having on the local infrastructure projects situated along its route, explorer and China scholar Charles Stevens visits a small Polish village feeling…
The human game – tackling football’s ‘slave trade’
Jul 16, 2018
Written by
Mark Rowe
Few would argue with football’s position as the world’s number one sport. But as Mark Rowe discovers, this global popularity is masking a sinister underbelly with human traffickers using the bright lights of Europe’s elite clubs as a lure for…
Trapped beneath the Earth
Jul 12, 2018
Written by
Geographical
For British cave divers, Chris Jewell and Jim Warny, who had been being rushed out to Thailand to help in this week’s epic rescue operation, the events bore an uncanny echo to a life-and-death struggle they had just recently experienced…
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[FROM THE ARCHIVE] A game of two hemispheres
Jul 06, 2018
Written by
Gavin McGowan
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that football has had a major impact on our world. We investigate how a lowly sport gained the power to start wars, make millionaires, and prompt a nation to paint its lampposts…
Bottled gold – the unexpected side effects of recycling in Germany
Jun 29, 2018
Written by
Melanie Barrin
A German recycling scheme is proving to be a source of relief for those on low-incomes, but is it also having an impact on recycling levels as a whole?
Feeding the Galápagos
Jun 26, 2018
Written by
Chris Fitch
The Galápagos are often thought of as a unique natural paradise, but they are also home to 30,000 people. In such a remote part of the world, feeding them is increasingly challenging
China’s plastic import ban in numbers
Jun 20, 2018
Written by
Laura Cole
China’s ban on plastic imports will displace more than 110 million tonnes of plastic waste over the next 12 years
ARCHIVE: Global tactics – football takes over the world
Jun 15, 2018
Written by
Melanie Train
If you think you can escape the ballyhoo of the World Cup, think again. Football is taking over the world
CONIFA: the alternative World Cup
Jun 14, 2018
Written by
Chris Fitch
As the world’s top footballers battle it out in Russia, a gathering of unrecognised nations had their own moment in the sporting spotlight
Mincing words: the fight to define meat
Jun 13, 2018
Written by
Laura Cole
The US meat industry is attempting to officially define ‘meat’ as a slew of new, clean meats move closer to the dinner table
The other side of Ukraine
Jun 11, 2018
Written by
Michael Pugh
After Michael Pugh quit his job as a law firm partner in Moscow, the only way he wanted to return home was by horse, travelling through Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Romania
CONIFA: the World Cup for unrecognised nations
Jun 06, 2018
Written by
Chris Fitch
As the world prepares for the next FIFA tournament in Russia, the top football teams from the world’s unrecognised nations square off in London
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