The Compass

Up until the late 1990s, depression was all but unknown in Japanese society and pharmaceutical companies had given up on... Read more

Half of the world’s river systems host hydro-electric dams. They offer reliable electricity but their construction forc... Read more

Brazil’s controversial new President, Jair Bolsonaro, has praised the country’s military dictatorship, which took power ... Read more

Oslo is now the fastest-growing major city in all of Europe. Its growth is attributed to high birth rates and migration.... Read more

Life in the Himalayas is tough at the best of times. Crops are dependent on the seasonal melt-water from the mountain gl... Read more

For nearly two million years we evolved in close sync with our environment but 250 years ago the industrial revolution h... Read more

After exploring our wasteful past and the reality of today’s trash challenge, Australian journalist Alexandra Spring ask... Read more

Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid looks at how modern living is changing our faces. With the help of professor Saw Seang Mei in Sing... Read more

Alexandra Spring continues her exploration of how our relationship with rubbish has evolved through time at the foot of ... Read more

As China grows in power, there are fears that it is trying to alter the course of Australian politics. The Australian go... Read more

In 2001 the use of all drugs was decriminalised meaning possession of drugs was now identified as a public health issue ... Read more

Kevin Connolly travels through the Middle East to look at different ways in which the Arab states in the region are conf... Read more

Written by Joaquin Rodrigo in 1939, the Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar classic. It was written amid the chaos of the ... Read more

After 2017 brought a string of hyper-active and destructive hurricanes in the so-called Atlantic Hurricane Season, it is... Read more

Fi Glover and digital guru Martha Lane Fox look at the digital revolution pioneered by the government in Estonia – where... Read more

The anti-government protests that began in the Arab world in 2010 triggered division between the religious scholars of I... Read more

The sky is hidden by smog in Lanzhou on the Yellow River; this transport and manufacturing hub is pumping Chinese goods ... Read more

Divya Arya looks at what happened in India at the height of the Cold War, and afterwards as the Berlin Wall came down, 3... Read more

Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid investigates what the last 250 years has done to our backs. What is it about modern life that has ... Read more

Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and Henrietta Moore from the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London are... Read more