Data and investigations

• Hollywood’s gender divide laid bare by analysis of this season’s Oscar contenders
• Where are the world’s most water-stressed cities?
• Access to clean water and sanitation around the world – mapped

Features

• ‘It’s been life-changing’: Ramadan during UK lockdown 
• They got their dream job away from it all – but what happened next? 
• The drive for better care for older LGBT people: ‘I won’t put up with prejudice’
• Connected and calm: how smart-home tech is giving family carers peace of mind
• Reeling in the years: dementia-friendly screenings make cinema accessible to all
• How can you leave no one behind when millions of children are uncounted?
• Stigma, guilt and gaps in the system: it’s time for NGOs to step up on staff mental health
• Bee orgies to biodiversity: lessons in becoming a beekeeper

Reportage 

• Recruiters inundated as coronavirus takes toll on UK labour market 
• ‘I can’t afford to turn away business’: view from shops on face mask rules
• ‘My husband missed the first week’: having a baby in lockdown 
• ‘Some idiot moaned about breakfast’: life in coronavirus quarantine 
• ‘Yuck factor’ puts off eye donors, leaving vital transplants at risk 
• Chinese medicine fuelling rise in donkey slaughter for global skin trade
• Volunteer travel: experts raise concerns over unregulated industry

Essays and opinion

• My favourite film aged 12: Fly Away Home
• I’ve never seen … Back to the Future
• ‘Luxury water’ for £80 a bottle? It’s ignorant, insensitive and irresponsible

Interviews

• Catarina de Albuquerque: ‘Water is a human right … but it can have a price’
• Bisi Alimi on LGBT rights in Nigeria: ‘It may take 60 years, but we have to start now’
• Steve Backshall: Young people know far more about eco issues than we did

Explainers

• Blockchain: what is it and what does it mean for development?
• Peak salt: is the desalination dream over for the Gulf states?
• Halve traffic accident deaths and injuries by 2020: can it be done?
• Gap year volunteering: how to do it right
• Tsetse fly: can castration end one of Africa’s oldest development problems?
•  Real time maps could predict and prevent the spread of malaria