The Chinese government claimed in 2021 that more than 80% of cotton harvesting was done by machine. But people are still ...

A traditional song in the Uyghur language plays over the video of a man feeding bits of car chassis into a machine. “Who is going to the city to be a stranger? Who can no longer stand it?” a nasal ...

The biases of a court expert whose advice has been pivotal in the removal of at least a dozen children from their mothers’ care have been exposed by an undercover investigation by the Bureau of ...

Content warning: This story involves discussion of sexually explicit messages, racism and suicide. Remote workers often get a message when they log on. But the ones at “fantasy-based text network” ...

Thousands of British cattle reared for supermarket beef are being fattened in industrial scale beef farms, many of them controversial US-style "feedlots" where livestock have significantly reduced or ...

Mentally ill people are being sent to prison in England and Wales for breaking antisocial behaviour rules that experts say they are unable to follow. They often face their court hearings with no legal ...

Santander exploited loopholes in its own climate policy in order to help raise billions for facilities relying on fracked US gas. The bank then quietly watered down the same policy, making it easier ...

When it comes to explaining the impact of America’s second biggest private company on your life, no one puts it better than the company itself. “We are the flour in your bread,” says one of Cargill’s ...

UK rivers near livestock farms are awash with superbugs and antibiotic residues, including in the idyllic River Wye, research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has found. Testing commissioned ...

Inside a vast Amazon warehouse in Beaumont, California, squat blue robots carrying eight-foot yellow shelving units perform a jerky, mechanised dance around each other as they make their way to human ...

To the untrained eye, the ancient woodland of Gregynog in mid-Wales seemed in good condition. It was late spring and the trees were heavy with green leaves. The grass was lush and the birds were noisy ...