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From Finance to FemTech: How Adaye Founder Shereen Abdulla is Tackling Menstrual Health

With a focus on health and sustainability, Adaye is on a mission to offer women, effective period care alternatives while breaking taboos around menstrual health

by Claire Wills

Dying for a Cuppa: The Dark Side of Tea

Impoverished tea pickers in Assam, India, are being targeted by ruthless agents who lure them into deals which include child trafficking, organ theft and exploitation

by Nick Harding

Will Selfies, Electrocution and Deforestation Fast-track Sloths – the World’s Slowest Mammal – To Extinction?

Can sniffer dogs, tracking backpacks and sloth crossings can keep these tree-living critters tucked safely away in the canopy where they belong. Words

by Sarah Freeman

The Shocking Donkey Skin Trade Scandal: Why Millions Are Being Killed To Cure Insomnia

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Criminal gangs are slaughtering donkeys to make ejiao for Chinese medicine to ‘cure’ a dry cough and aid sleep

by Nick Harding

Vulnerable and Overlooked: The Toll of Climate Change on the World’s Poorest Nations

On International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we look at the countries disproportionately affected by climate change, where extreme weather events are worsening poverty and threatening livelihoods

by Anthea Ayache

From Greenwashing to Genuine Change: The Truth About Carbon Offsetting

Riddled with hidden flaws and complexities, the billion-dollar carbon offset market may not be the climate solution we’ve been led to believe

by Josh Sims

Parched Earth: Are We Running Out of Water?

It covers 70 per cent of the earth’s surface but climate change, deforestation, intensive agriculture and construction mean a global water crisis is looming…

by Nick Harding

Room to Roam: Bison Thrive as Bridges Keep Kent’s Wildlife and Walkers Apart

The new walkways will give Kent’s reintroduced bison an extra 150 hectares of free roaming terrain

by Nick Ames

Growing Together: The Kenyan Farm Leading Human-Elephant Harmony

The Mara Elephant Project is exploring which crops elephants prefer and which they avoid, to create elephant-friendly farming solutions.

by Holly Budge