Are music bans in India and Pakistan an appropriation of art and performances by nationalist imperatives?
Ayahuasca has been used for spiritual and therapeutic purposes by indigenous healers in Brazil’s northwestern Acre state for centuries.
Luna Parracho/Reuters
Donald J Trump has emerged victorious in the historic, and historically acerbic, 2016 American presidential election. What does this outcome mean for the world?
Remote mountain regions are closer to the climate problem than we think, particularly in the context of safeguarding essential ecosystem services such as safe and adequate water.
The people who live on the Niyamgiri mountain have tried to say no to mining. But the government is not listening.
Reinhard Krause/Reuters
India’s economy keeps growing, but women’s rights are going backwards: why?
US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on tour by Grand Imam Ali Mustafa Yaqub at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta in 2010.
Adek Berry/Reuters
Trump is not a disease that befell the United States, he’s a symptom of a potentially severe illness. Recovering American democracy will take quite some time.
Clinton attending a school event in Luxor in 1999, as First Lady.
Reuters
Can Hillary Clinton, as a woman president, make a difference to Egyptian women? Her former views on democratisation in Egypt leave doubt int the minds of local observers.
Bhokul has faced the loss of her family’s land, and the loss of their income. Now climate change threatens her livelihood even more.
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson/UNU-EHS
Famously freewheeling – but also violent and unequal – Rio de Janeiro has elected a right-wing former pentecostal bishop as mayor. What’s at stake for this ‘gay, black and tolerant’ Brazilian city?
Seven countries in the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership hail from the Asia Pacific.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Security and economic interests, in the guise of the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (seven of which hail from the Asia-Pacific), are causing anxiety among US friends and allies.
Anosmia prevents people from smelling any odors.
Yuri Gripas/Reuters
Professor in Practice on Environmental Innovation, School of Social and Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow, UK, National University of Singapore