James Mayor talks to forward-thinking innovators in the environment, wine, humanitarian action, culture, research, and other areas.

With climate change decreeing that grape-picking begin ever earlier it’s once again urgent to consider the sustainability of Portugal’s most internationally renowned wine region.

Essential Algarve spoke with Charles Symington about Adega do Ataíde, a pioneering winery in Portugal and the World

Climate change, Guterres said, had moved from an era of global warming into a “terrifying” new phase of “global boiling,” a “disaster” for the entire planet.

On February 6 this year, a massive earthquake struck southern Turkey, causing the loss of tens of thousands of lives and creating a colossal humanitarian crisis in Turkey and neighbouring Syria.

Look no further afield than Portugal to find a compelling case study of the devastating effects of climate change on population, agriculture and the wider economy.

James Mayor reports from northern Portugal on a brave attempt to solve the problems of the Douro, against which too many odds are stacked.

James Mayor meets two women in wine who are doing rather than talking about saving the planet.