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Stop Funding Hate is urging leading UK mobile phone providers to halt advertising in newspapers that ‘promote hate’

With the World Athletics Championships under way in London, a film and a photography exhibition document how sport is improving the lives of those with no country to call their own

A digital platform has launched that seeks to harness consumer power to create a more democratic economy

A pack of wolves has become established in the Danish wilderness; one of several recent ‘rewilding’ successes across Europe

A community microgrid is helping New Yorkers exchange renewable power

Solar energy is helping to save lives in Syria by providing a more reliable power supply

North Sea cod has been certified as sustainable after stocks recover from the brink of near collapse

Babies born dangerously early could one day have a significantly higher chance of survival, suggests a trial of a new artificial womb

Online campaign #WhiteWednesdays, which protests the obligatory wearing of headscarves for women in Iran, is gaining momentum

The number of people who are alive in the UK thanks to organ transplants has exceeded 50,000 for the first time

In July 2007, a law came into effect that banned smoking in enclosed public places in the UK. Ten years on, the number of smokers has fallen by nearly 2 million

Ten years to the week since the introduction of the smoking ban, the number of UK smokers is at a record low. Here are 5 positive health impacts sparked by the ban

German MPs have legalised gay marriage after Angela Merkel dropped her opposition to a vote

With such limited space, how can cities be designed to feature more greenery? China is thinking outside the box: vertically

Matching up London’s struggling artists with the empty properties of holidaying homeowners, social enterprise Launch Pad is seeking its first applicants. It’s ‘house-sitting for creative folk,’ [...]

Rather than ploughing energy into treadmills and dumbbells, GoodGym members keep fit by helping their local communities. And the concept is spreading fast

After years of being castigated for their reluctance to deal with extremism, some of the world’s biggest tech companies have formed a counter-terrorism forum

Could shipping containers help to combat homelessness? Social enterprise Help Bristol’s Homeless thinks so

Films with diverse casts are proving more popular at the box office, finds a study by the Creative Artists Agency