Where have all the Bees gone?

Facts and figures on bees, honey & the food connection.

Gathering wild honey is an age-old tradition in South India. Mari Marcel Thekaekara and her husband Stan see how it’s done.

Illustrated by Scott Ritchie.

A walk on the wild side with Hadani Ditmars.

Extinction is forever. Can we stop the slide in bio-diversity?

It won’t be easy but Philip Chandler argues that beekeepers themselves need to lead a revolution in sustainability.

Charlie Parker operates Charlie Bee Honey near Niagara Falls, Ontario. He reflects on his 50 years as a beekeeper.

Jonathan Glennie takes on both the aid optimists and the pessimists.

Some call it 'live aid'. Some call it 'dead aid'. The debate is raging. Vanessa Baird and Jonathan Glennie tell the story so far...

Vanessa Baird draws a few conclusions.

Pakistan's army offensive has wrongfooted the Taliban. But the larger war of ideas has yet to be won. Pervez Hoodbhoy explains.

Nick Harvey reports on the position of the Hmong – both inside Laos and the bleak refugee camps of Thailand.

It’s not just hurricanes that the people of Haiti are struggling against.

The treatment of Afghans with mental illness is only adding to their trauma.

Climate camps around the world.

Landmark ruling in India delights activists

Guy Stringer, director of Oxfam, chair of Devopress who initially published New Internationalist magazine in 1974.

No international agreement exists on reducing emissions from forests, but that hasn’t stopped companies attempting to profit from it

Mike Bonanno is a cultural activist and one half of the Yes Men. Five years ago he and sidekick Andy Bichlbaum were invited on to BBC World News pretending to represent Dow Chemicals, whose environmental legacy included the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

Jeremy Seabrook visits Bangladesh to better understand the roots of child labour.

The top tourist destination in Niger until the late 1980s, the city of Agadez – located in the dead centre of the country – is today no more than a shadow of its former self.

'Make do and mend' is a time-honoured Egyptian talent, discovers Maria Golia.

Mass suicide the CO₂ way in Polyp’s cartoon.

A road movie cum Western. Or, rather, it's a railroad movie and the 'West' - where innumerable migrants are headed on railroad wagons - is more accurately the 'North', the US.

A graphic adaptation of the book by Studs Terkel by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle.

For all its ancient antecedents, Siwan is a very modern album and a joyous meditation for that.

Starting where founding father of afrobeat Fela Kuti left off, this album features energetic tracks of sweaty inventiveness.

It takes a singular talent to make a book of 1,000 pages that is as hard to put down as it is to pick up. Despite its size, 2666 retains the agility of a thriller.

CDs that didn't quite make a full review, but are still worthy of a mention.

At a new age festival in Sweden, a group of people who’ve never met before explore tree-hugging, sweat lodges, shamanism, tantric sex.