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Renewables revolution is there for the taking

Since independence in 1966, Botswana’s annual growth rates have been the highest in the world – bar none. It is estimated that were it not for the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, growth rates would be one or two per cent higher today.

Jorge’s community is part of the 500,000-strong Wayúu indigenous group, and it is not only their home in the northern foothills of the Sierra de Perijá which is under threat.

A special on coal – including the ‘clean coal’ con, windpower in China, success in Bangladesh and activism everywhere.

Science is coming up with ever more extraordinary proposals for combating climate change, from laying white plastic over deserts to locking up carbon dioxide in the oceans or shooting it into space. Should we take any of this seriously?

President of South Africa (though not for much longer).

Bangladeshi photographer Shehzad Noorani exposes the damage done to the Buriganga River.

Women desperately want toilets – but not as a health aid. Libby Plumb reports.

Polyp's take on happiness

Nelson Mandela gets a birthday present from the US, being repealed from the Terror Watch List!

Powerful words from South Africa’s first black President

Unbelievably, people still exist whose task in life is shovelling shit, as Mari Marcel Thekaekara explains.

Colombian activist Teófilo Acuña on the danger of confronting paramilitaries.

Water privatization heads back to public management around the world

Why young rural Indians end up addicted to pills