With another new year coming in, it is always a good time to start reflecting on the previous year and looking ahead to what is next.

Something over 82 million more people are alive this Christmas than have ever been alive before, as our world population moves inexorably towards the eight billion mark, due in now just over three years.

Given the change in global agricultural production and trade patterns that followed the Carter grain embargo in 1980, it is worth considering what changes may emerge in the years after the Trump era tariffs.

In a humming factory in Kenya’s highlands, tea is hand-plucked from the fields, cured and shredded into the fine leaves that have sated drinkers from London to Lahore for generations.

Earth is finally free to rise after hundreds of thousands of years of ice suppression.

The drought monitor remains essentially unchanged.