Clean energy’s dirty secret

You don’t need to stop buying gadgets. Becca Caddy says you need to buy differently – and now’s the time to start

Copper is used in virtually every area of industry and modern life. The red metal is the third most-used metal globally, behind only steel and aluminium. It is even nicknamed Dr. Copper because demand

Scouring the ground for metal might seem a solitary pursuit, but one detectorist has mobilised his fellow hobbyists into a network of finders who are on call across the country, working in teams to reunite people with lost belongings. Andrew Lloyd reports

A whistle-stop tour of new faces, farewells, winners and losers

Beyond the shadow of genocide, Rwanda tells a different story: one of survival, cultural depth and conservation grounded in community

Born into a family where the previous five generations of men had been miners, Danny Scott , 60, was expected to follow suit. Instead, he became a writer and in his new book he paints a vivid picture of his upbringing in a Nottinghamshire mining village