Drying coca, Chapare, Bolivia
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Production of coca leaf, the raw material in cocaine, is surging in Peru despite 40 years of forced eradication designed to convince farmers to abandon it. Bolivia shows a better way forward.
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London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
An Italian police officer operates a surveillance drone in Turin, Italy, April 2020.
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Police are using drones to enforce rules and surveil and intimidate people.
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I entered this world expecting a fight for acceptance in a dog-eat-dog enclave of hyper masculine brutality. I was wrong.
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Dogs can behave like teenagers too. But it’s just a passing phase – and the quality of the dog-owner relationship matters.
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Coronavirus has made it glaringly obvious how serious the problems with UK housing are.
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The Baltic crusades had a long term impact on the local environment – 700 years later, the details of this are clear.
Rubbish piling up in Bristol, March 31 2020.
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Lockdown has exposed real problems with the circular economy which urgently need to be addressed.
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Amid emotional devastation and uncertainty, coronavirus is providing the potential for more connectedness, and for radically changing the meanings of community itself.
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We can lock in these changes to build sustainable cities out of the coronavirus crisis – here’s how.
A Royal Air Force De Havilland MosquitoI in flight on September 30 1944.
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The second world war offers a possible blueprint for confronting the ventilator challenge.
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Being cooped up at home is of course far more manageable than being locked up behind bars. But people isolating due to COVID-19 are still forced to deal with some of the same problems.
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87% of those polled believe lockdown should continue for at least another three weeks.
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The airline industry has faced many crises before. But these pale in comparison to the economic hit that airlines are currently facing.
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One practical exit strategy from lockdown would be identifying green zones, and progressively joining them together once it is safe to do so.
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Many LGBTQ people are being forced to move back into unsafe domestic spaces.
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Five ways coronavirus could change sex and relationships.
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Hunger is increasing but community organisations, local government and the food industry are working to fill the gap.
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Most people in the West are used to some form of solitude from time to time. But this is a fairly new normal.
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In the past, quarantines were often seen as an excuse for state intervention, and condemned as instruments of despotism.