A Shanghai refuse worker shows the strain of the month-long COVID lockdown.
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What can China do to resolve a crisis that threatens not only the health and security of its people and economy, but the future of Chinese Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping?
Numbers of forest-dependent orchid bees in Brazil have been found to have declined by around 50%.
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Insect numbers and species decline steeply where agriculture and habitat loss coincide. Preserving natural habitat can reduce losses up to nine-fold
A stretch of the Champs-Élysées around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris is due to be pedestrianised by 2030.
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A new study finds congestion charging and creating car-free streets and separated bike lanes have been most effective at reducing car use in European cities.
Man sips a cup of tea while sitting on a pole on the roof of the under-construction BBC Broadcasting House in the late 1920s.
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Meet the mavericks who helped create the BBC – and refused to toe the line.
Marks & Spencer’s stall in the covered market, Cardiff, in 1901.
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The pandemic changed the way we shop – with many ‘new’ initiatives actually reinventing old ways of doing things.
Chlorella, a species of microalgae grown for the ALG-AD project in Devon.
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The inside of story of a pioneering programme to convert nitrogen into microalgae that can generate sustainable animal feed.
Lolampa, a Turkana herder, with his goats and sheep.
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Uncertainty must be embraced and harnessed for the better because stability never lasts long.
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Filial abuse remains a largely hidden issue with no statistics to determine how prevalent it is.
Joshi Festival in the Kalash tribe in Pakistan, May 14, 2011.
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Researchers visited the remote Kalash valleys to investigate how the concept of ‘happy’ and ‘sad’ music differs across cultures.
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A historian argues for conservation strategies that embrace creativity and diverse farming methods.
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We know how to build a truly zero carbon house. So why are we not doing it, on a massive scale?
Frederick Banting and John Macleod.
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Meet the feuding scientists who battled for credit over the discovery of insulin.
Insights editors choose their top long reads of the year.
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The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
HRH The Princess Mary in 1912, aged 15. She was was the third child of King George V and Queen Mary.
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The story of how a teenage princess launched one of the first global charity campaigns.
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A century ago, early British nudists had to fight for the right to publish naked photos – the similarities with social media today are striking.
The author has an evening cuppa while searching for a lost convoy of medical supplies – in remote Zibok district (1996).
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Violent performance is the Taliban’s language. If we view them as savage, backward or misogynistic, the opportunity to learn how to face them is missed.
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Western medicine has always split the mind and the body. Long COVID reveals just how damaging this approach has been.
A truck with migrants crossing the Sahara from Niger in 2009.
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Livelihoods which communities have relied on for centuries are being criminalised by heavy-handed state restrictions.
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We discovered that the 12 largest petrochemical companies announced 88 new projects between 2012 and 2019: new and expanded facilities that will likely operate for decades, ramping up carbon emissions.