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Child's play: A boy jumps across boats wedged on a mixture of crude oil, water and sand, near Bojo in the Niger Delta. Oil production is a major pollutant in the area. Petterik Wiggers/Panos

11 Jun 2020 5 minute read

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Fed up with the fumes

Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as...

11 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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Top of the class

Dirty air is not an impossible problem. Beth Gardiner assesses some places cleaning up their act.

11 Jun 2020 4 minute read

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The hidden polluters

Agricultural air pollution seems to be a tough nut to crack. Amy Hall explores the air-pollution problem...

9 Jun 2020 19 minute read

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Hitting the population brakes

Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just...

Children join with residents of Mahul to form a human chain as part of an International Human Rights Day protest against the government. Pratik Chorge/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

10 Jun 2020 7 minute read

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Unfit for habitation

India’s air pollution crisis affects millions, and not just in Delhi. Aruna Chandrasekhar meets people...

Turkey is restricting access to a vital life source for thousands of people in northeast Syria. A new crowdfunder is raising money for water infrastructure in the region, writes Jo Taylor from the campaign.

1 Jun 2020 3 minute read

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Water as a weapon of war

Turkey is restricting access to a vital life source for thousands of people in northeast Syria. A new crowdfunder is raising...

A young boy wears a gas mask to protect himself from the fumes during a fire in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. DONWILSON ODHIAMBO/Sopa Images/Lightrocket via Getty

19 May 2020 13 minute read

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To protect life

Covid-19 has shown us that swift action on global health is possible, even if it still falls short. What could we achieve,...

High school students wearing masks protest against high levels of air pollution outside the government building in Skopje, North Macedonia December 20, 2019. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

26 Apr 2020 5 minute read

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Covid-19 cannot be an excuse for more toxic air

Air pollution kills millions of people each year. In the post-virus rush to return to ‘business as usual’, we could end up...

12 Mar 2020 2 minute read

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Confessions of a frequent flyer

Nanjala Nyabola on making amends for high-carbon lifestyles.

11 Mar 2020 4 minute read

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Recording climate catastrophe

Louise Gray on sonic journalism, a novel way of recording the decline of...

Vast areas of land have been stolen from tribal people and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation. Credit: Fiore Longo

3 Mar 2020 5 minute read

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The violence of ‘conservation’

Fiore Longo of Survival International argues for an end to big conservation projects that abuse and destroy...

Fifi, with her daughter Mia, bemoans the slow pace of construction. Photos: Tamzin Forster

21 Jan 2020 4 minute read

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Barbudans are resisting disaster capitalists

Ever since Hurricane Irma struck in September 2017, residents of Barbuda have been trying to defend themselves against those...

Since the 1970s, the world’s human population has doubled to 7.7 billion.

13 Nov 2019 6 minute read

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Is concern about population growth exaggerated?

Does obsession with population size miss the point? Mohan Rao and Sara Parkin weigh in on...

Car drivers in Bogotá, Colombia, spent 271 hours in traffic jams during 2018, in Dublin 246 hours and in London 227 hours, according to global traffic data cruncher INREX

16 Nov 2019 3 minute read

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What if...cities became car-free?

Vanessa Baird on how to turn a toxic bane into a liberating blessing.

A demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask waves a Mapuche indigenous flag during a protest against Chile's government in Santiago, Chile October 31, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

12 Nov 2019 5 minute read

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Chile is evading scrutiny on climate justice

The relocation of the UN climate summit to Spain is a distraction from growing state repression.

17 Oct 2019 5 minute read

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Negotiating a just retreat from rising seas

As cities begin planning for coastal erosion, relocating residents has paved the way for land grabs, forced evictions and a...

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