Vivien Sansour at Hudson Valley Seed Co farm in Accord, New York, on 20 March 2024. Photograph: Bridget Badore/The Guardian The first year that the…
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‘Ecocide in Gaza’: does scale of environmental destruction amount to a war crime?
In a dilapidated warehouse in Rafah, Soha Abu Diab is living with her three young daughters and more than 20 other family members. They have…
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Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the…
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Traffic petered out on Gracechurch Street, in the heart of London’s financial district, as hundreds marched down the road, in step with samba drummers beating…
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It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory…
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