Journalists Killed or Silenced for Environmental Reporting

OCCRP and Forbidden Stories – a consortium of 40 journalists in 15 countries – takes a look at examples from three continents, in Guatemala, Tanzania, and India.

Farmers must change to feed world up to 2050

Last summer Europe was abnormally hot, with temperatures topping 30°C in the Arctic Circle

Even the unrealistic best-case scenario of 1.5°C of warming by 2100 will see extreme temperatures in many regions and leave disadvantaged populations with food insecurity, lost incomes, and worse health. 

Poem from Princess Nunakawa to Okuninusho

Come in the dark, 

When the sun has disappeared

And the night emerges

Behind the green hills.

Come smiling, like the morning sun

In all its glory,

And take in your embrace

My arms white as 

Ropes of Taku fiber,

My breasts, young and soft,

In 1920, The Hogarth Press, founded by Virginia Woolf and her husband, published Paris: A Poem by Hope Mirrlees

it seems an unlikely coincidence that one of the most striking lines of Paris refers to “The wicked April moon” and that Eliot’s Wasteland should commence in the “cruellest” month of April.

The Tibetan Buddhist Canon

The Tibetan canon is divided into two parts, called the Kangyur and the Tengyur. 

The Poetess

Apart from her fascination with the theme of love, Sappho contributed in other ways to the conventions of the lyric genre. Her emphasis on emotion, on subjective experience, and on the individual marks a stark contrast between her work and the epic, liturgical, or dramatic poetry of the period.

"The stars are sinking; the watch goes by; I lie alone."

Ruth Padel, prizewinning poet and former chair of the UK Poetry Society, chooses her favourite poets who happen to be women.