As a journalist, Gabriella Sotelo covers the environment, climate change, and agriculture. She has a bachelor's in Journalism/Environmental Studies from NYU. Plastic has become ubiquitous in the ...

Outside the door to one of the wine shops in our neighbourhood is a small inconspicuous box. Here you can put your cork stoppers for recycling. We do it. And many French people also, because France is ...

By Jacquelin Carnegie Cork City (photo: George Karbus) Everything you’ve ever heard about Ireland is true: The hills are green, the Guinness is flowing, the wind is ever at your back. The pubs are ...

At dawn in the Alentejo, the fields glow gold and the air hums with cicadas. Men with axes move through the cork oaks, slicing into the bark with surgical precision. The first strike is quiet, ...