Bloomberg Elevated gold prices and India’s push for more transparency on purchases and income disclosure will cut the nation’s demand for bullion in 2016 to its lowest in seven years, before consumption recovers in 2017, according to the World Gold Council. The WGC trimmed its demand estimate for a second time this year to between 650 and 750 metric ...

  Coca / DPA In earlier times, the water here used to sing. “Not anymore,” says Silvia Shiguangi from Ecuador’s Huaorani tribe. Bananas and cassava no longer grow well and the fish catch has sunk dramatically. “We used to live from what the forest gave us,” says the young mother, who left her village in the Yasuni National Park, home ...

  Freiburg / DPA Gardeners love to try out plants far from their native range, but can you believe that someone wants to grow tea near the Alps? “We’re having a tinker,” say farmer Erwin Wagner and gardener Werner Hanser. It’s three years since they began their experiment, and as the winter approaches, they’re bringing the Chinese tea plants, all ...