May 2005's Issue
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Featured in issue 378
Life
Egrets and tree frogs; migrant families and cityscapes: why the sixth and greatest extinction in the planet’s history is happening now.
- New Internationalist Editorial, Klein, Philippe Hays, Ed Hoogervorst, Kawakami, Sven Torfinn, Mark Edwards and Cornelius Paas
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Only protect
The chilling message of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, conducted by more than 1,360 experts worldwide at the behest of the UN.
- New Internationalist Editorial
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Interview with the Association of Iranian Blogwriters (Penlog)
Iranian webloggers are in prison as part of a general clampdown on internet dissent. But Jay Bakht of the Association of Iranian Blogwriters is hitting back.
- Chris Richards
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Air
From desert storms to plane travel and smokestacks, how the air we breathe may prove to be our downfall.
- New Internationalist Editorial, John Isaac, Gene Rhoden, Chung-Wah, Rosing-Unep and Gunter Ziesler
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Sunken Boat Being Pulled Out Of The Water By The People Of The Temporary Islands Of The Brahmaputra. Photo © Swapan Nayak / Drik Picture Library
- 1 May 2005
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The Burden of Notoriety
What do Africans think of the torrent of pontifi cating about their continent’s woes, from Bob Geldof and Bono to Gordon Brown and Bill Gates? Ike Oguine has been asking around.
- Ike Oguine
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Highlighting the work of photographers from the Majority World
Rescuing a boat from the fl ood - an everyday drama on the temporary islands of the Brahmaputra, captured by Indian photographer Swapan Nayak.
- Swapan Nayak
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Dear departed
Reem Haddad remembers the man seen by many as the father of the nation.
- Reem Haddad
- 1 May 2005
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CHANGE
Recommendations for governments – and addresses of action groups that will keep them honest.
- New Internationalist Editorial, German Castro, Ruediger Fessel, Olivia Droeshaut and William Campbell
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Hungry season in Timor-Leste
After the Portugese and the Indonesians has come an invasion of aid donors and free-market blueprints. Ben Moxham wonders why people in newly liberated Timor-Lest (East Timor), who have endured so much, should now be starving.
- Ben Moxham
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Earth
From monoculture in Montana to the spreading Gobi desert in China, how our assault on the earth has eroded its thin skin of soil.
- New Internationalist Editorial
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Water
Bleached coral and beached ships; lost wetlands and sinking islands: the power of water over our health, our weather and our wars.
- New Internationalist Editorial
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