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The Battle for ZAD: Victory for anti-airport movement

30 Apr 2018 1 minute read

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The Battle for ZAD: Victory for anti-airport movement

The French government has abandoned plans to build a controversial airport – but is still evicting the ZAD protesters....

Mercury levels rising in Brazil

31 Mar 2018 1 minute read

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Mercury levels rising in Brazil

A large-scale dam in the Amazon is leading to dangerously high levels of mercury in indigenous communities writes ...

Alfred Kelfala, part of the roving Freetown Ebola burial team, puts on a safety suit before burying a corpse, 2015.

10 Apr 2018 8 minute read

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Did deforestation cause the Ebola outbreak?

How humanity may have triggered Ebola outbreaks. By Katie McQue.

2 Apr 2018 5 minute read

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Mozambique plantation leaves no land or jobs for villagers

Promised plantation jobs, five years later these Mozambicans are still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.

9 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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‘Seashore landfilling’ and other waste woes

Lebanon’s waste is literally spilling beyond its shores. Daniel Hilton reports.

Edinburgh university fossil fuel divestment (c) Edinburgh People & Planet

12 Feb 2018 5 minute read

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A landmark victory for the Fossil Free movement

Edinburgh student Ruby Kelman on why the university’s divestment victory matters.

Gina Lopez

22 Jan 2018 3 minute read

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Gina Lopez fights Philippine mining

The fiery Filipino environmentalist talks to Veronique Mistiaen.

Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres

22 Jan 2018 5 minute read

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Drawing strength from our ancestors

Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres talks about her mother’s example and how ancestors accompany our struggles.

Arctic oil trial

5 Jan 2018 5 minute read

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Landmark verdict gives Arctic oil green light

But ‘Trial of the Century’ also cements climate protections, reports Ragnhild Freng Dale.

Gone with the wind in Dominica

1 Jan 2018 2 minute read

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Gone with the wind in Dominica

Hurricane Maria swept through Dominica, destroying 62 per cent of all dwellings and killing 57, Richard Swift...

Saving our underwater meadows

1 Jan 2018 1 minute read

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Saving our underwater meadows

Citizens are coming to the rescue of endangered seagrass meadows, writes Nick Dowson.

New Internationalists’s 2017 top reads

22 Dec 2017 4 minute read

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New Internationalist’s 2017 top reads

Our 10 most read articles of the year are still as relevant as ever.

Peasants feed world: examples of the rich variety of foods produced by peasant farming.

14 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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The road to food sovereignty

Peasants, not industrial agriculture, are the way to feed the world, argue Pat Mooney and Nnimmo...

climate migrants

8 Dec 2017 5 minute read

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Either victims or terrorists

That’s how news media brand climate migrants, says researcher Alex Randall.

Air pollution India: Smog near Delhi. Photo: Saurabh Kumar, Creative Commons

4 Dec 2017 3 minute read

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Killing us softly – with this smog

When smog stops play, you know it’s real bad. Mari Marcel Thekaekara writes.

Arvind Gupta in his lab. Ashok Rupner

19 Dec 2017 3 minute read

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Arvind Gupta: making toys from trash

Making learning fun for young minds. Priti Salian reports from a classroom in Bangalore.

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