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Carbon and water cycle: The small Scottish loch holding an answer to how the UK could reach net zero
Disease dilemmas: Keir Starmer to ban TV junk food ads before 9pm in UK public health drive
Disease dilemmas: Bird flu and mpox show little learnt from Covid about future pandemics
Power and borders: Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has triggered doubts among Russian elite, spy chiefs say
Population geography: Global population to shrink this century as birth rates fall
Changing spaces: Inside the mind of a Nimby
Changing spaces: A pre-election journey across Britain’s neglected north
Hazardous earth: The next critical mineral source could be volcanic soup
IB Power places and networks: Christmas shipments rush risks deepening supply chain crisis, warns Maersk boss
Disease dilemmas: Big rise in diseases linked to ageing and lifestyle increases healthcare burden
IB Global interactions: Joe Biden to raise solar import tariffs in bid to protect US industry
Carbon and water cycle: Panama Canal traffic recovers from drought caused by El Niño, study finds
Carbon and water cycle: Dutch kick-start European attempts at carbon capture
Global Migration: The ‘brain waste’ of skilled migrants in Europe
IB Freshwater: Dubai battles flood waters as historic storm causes chaos
IB Freshwater: ‘New climate reality’ stretches global freshwater supply
IB Changing population: Marriage holds key to Japan’s falling births
IB Global climate: Warmer, wetter, hotter, drier — February caps unending stretch of record temperatures
Power and borders: Sweden joins ‘Nato lake’ on Moscow’s doorstep
IB Fresh water: AI boom sparks concern over Big Tech’s water consumption
IB Global risks and resilience: North Korean hackers use AI for more sophisticated scams
Carbon and water cycle: Huge ice loss risks Antarctica’s ‘destabilisation’
IB Global climate: Ski industry navigates new terrain to fend off threat of climate change
Carbon and water cycle: Atmospheric rivers set to hit US west coast
Disease dilemmas: China hopes for ‘dragon babies’ as population decline gathers pace
Changing places: China hopes for ‘dragon babies’ as population decline gathers pace
Power and Borders: US vetoes UN resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza
Climate change: How each country’s emissions and climate pledges compare
Global Migration: Sunak under pressure as net migration to UK hits record 745,000
Global migration: Britain’s migrant policy is in disarray
Changing Spaces: To fix towns, politicians must not forget about cities
Power and borders: Gaza — the history of an embattled territory
Climate graphic - Rivers: Amazon river at lowest in 121 years
Climate change: UK regulators approve plans for new Rosebank North Sea oilfield
Climate change: Earth outside ‘safe operating zone’ for humans in crucial areas, scientists find
Natural disasters: Morocco vows to rebuild as hopes fade for more earthquake survivors
Changing spaces: A northern English town looks to BAE Systems to help it ‘level up’
Changing spaces: The Nimby tax on Britain and America
Supply chains: Severe drought in Panama hits global shipping industry
Climate change: The sudden warming of the oceans
Climate change: First days of June bring record heat
Changing spaces: ‘New town’ offers vision of how to breathe life back into ailing UK high streets
Climate change: Will El Niño return for a heated-up 2023?
Health and Changing Spaces: ‘Population anxiety’ fuelling harmful fertility policies, says UN
Power and borders: Xi Jinping to test limits of friendship with Putin
Changing spaces: HS2 rail project delayed by 2 years to save costs
Glaciation - Climate graphic of the week: Glacial lakes flood risks rise
Power and borders: How to contain a recalcitrant Russia
Hazardous Earth: Turkey and Syria’s devastating earthquakes in graphics
Power and borders: Geography is (almost) everything
Changing spaces: China’s population falls in historic shift
Earth Life Support Systems - Climate graphic of the week: ‘alarming’ trends revealed in weather reports
Climate change: Scientists study how wavy jet stream plus ‘extra warmth’ fuels extreme weather
Changing spaces: Big cities drive half of global economic growth
Hazardous earth: Mauna Loa eruption provides unique research opportunity for volcanologists
Disease dilemmas: Global floods and droughts will intensify sooner than expected, studies show
Changing spaces: World population reaches 8bn as it grows older
Disease dilemmas: UK lags behind comparable countries in cancer survival rates, study finds
Disease dilemmas: Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows
Climate change: World on track for up to 2.6C temperature rise by 2100, reports UN
Power and borders: Crimean bridge explosion leaves Russian supply lines exposed
Climate change: The new era of stronger hurricanes
Changing spaces: Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people
Changing places: Why are UK home energy bills going through the roof?
Disease dilemmas: Overweight England struggles to break the ‘junk food cycle’
Power and borders: UN envoy ‘unable to assess’ scale of Xinjiang repression
Climate change: ‘Megadrought’ threatens water and power supplies to millions in US
Climate change: Record carbon dioxide levels alarm scientists
Ecosystems under stress: Trouble in Costa Rica’s eco-paradise as homebuyers heat up market
Global change: War in Ukraine makes farming innovation imperative
Climate change: Polar regions experience extremes as world warms
Changing spaces: How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town?
Carbon and water cycle: The rise of ‘extreme weather attribution’
Power and borders: Russia’s invasion to have ‘enormous impact’ on world food supplies
Geographical skills: War in Ukraine reminds us that maps can be weapons
Changing Spaces: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps — latest updates
Changing Spaces: What teenagers can teach us about creating better places to live
Global resource consumption: Macron restarts France’s ‘nuclear adventure’ with plans for 6 reactors
Changing Spaces: Five takeaways from the UK’s levelling-up plan
Changing Spaces: How the UK high street was hit by the pandemic: look up your area
Food and health: The US’s hidden minority hit hard by Covid
Disease dilemmas: Antibiotic resistance kills over 1m people a year, says study
Global change: Hydrogen power forecast to bring new dimension to energy geopolitics
Climate change: Weather events cost the US $145bn in 2021 as climate change took hold
Global change: Britain needs immigrants if it is to survive the climate storm
Changing spaces: Wealth inequality rises in Britain after decade of stability
Climate change: Deaths mount after ‘unprecedented’ tornadoes devastate parts of US
Earth Life Support Systems: La Niña expected to intensify global rain and drought after second consecutive year
Global migration: Belarus moves migrants away from Polish border camp
Power and borders: Belarus seeks Russian missiles as border tensions rise
Earth Life Support Systems: Policing the Amazon: on the front lines of deforestation
Climate change: COP26: How every country’s emissions and climate pledges compare
Power and borders: China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile
Global climate: How green is your electric vehicle?
Disease dilemmas: WHO backs deployment of first malaria vaccine for children
Changing Spaces/Hazardous Earth: La Palma’s volcano thrills onlookers — but should the ‘lava chasers’ be stopped?
Disease dilemmas: World’s biggest cities fail on tougher WHO air pollution standards
Global migration: The Turkish wall built to keep out refugees from Afghanistan
Climate change risks triggering catastrophic tsunamis, scientist warns
Power and Borders: Africa has quietly become the epicentre of the Islamist threat
Global Change: Pandemic and higher food prices fuel sharp rise in global hunger
Changing spaces: Half of all bikes sold in Europe will be electric by 2025, predicts manufacturer
Global Interactions: What’s fuelling China’s new online nationalists
Global Change: How heatwaves became climate change’s silent killer
Changing spaces: Instability in the Sahel: how a jihadi gold rush is fuelling violence in Africa
Changing spaces: How acute inequality scars Cornish idyll hosting G7 summit
Global climate: How can the world get to net zero emissions by 2050?
Global climate: Europe’s Climate Leaders 2021
Disease dilemmas: Covid threat and drought combine to put India’s tea harvest at risk
Changing spaces: Building blocks: how Birmingham is emerging from London’s shadow
IB Global Trends in Consumption: UAE’s Taqa seeks to shine with solar energy push
Climate Change: Forest fires spread across Indian Himalayan state
Power and borders: US offers to help Egypt unblock Suez Canal
Global Interactions: How the KitKat went global
Global migration: Biden scrambles to cope with rising number of migrant children
Climate change: Polar vortex sends Texas into deep freeze
IB DP Global change: Pandemic blamed for falling birth rates across much of Europe
IB DP Urban environments: Saudi Arabia's mega-project: a 170km line city through the desert
Changing spaces: Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making
Power and borders: US launches air strikes against Iran-linked militias in Syria
IB DP Global interactions: Denmark raises investment in Arctic surveillance to counter Russian build-up
Climate change: Go-ahead for Cumbrian coal mine put on hold
IB DP Global resource consumption: India’s energy demands to grow more than those of other countries, says IEA chief
IB DP Urban environments: How cities around the world are tackling climate change
Earth’s life support systems: Egypt’s farmers on front line in battle against water scarcity
Power as borders: US warns Beijing over incursion into Taiwanese air defence zone
Global migration: Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK
Climate change: Brazil denudes rainforest further in 2020
Changing spaces: Destitution levels soared in the UK, even before the pandemic
Power and borders: UK to send troops to Mali peacekeeping operation
Power and borders: Constitutional question at the heart of Ethiopia’s fight in Tigray
Earth life support systems: Pollution results less impressive during second European lockdown
Climate change/data skills: Siberia experiences record temperatures
Power and borders: What’s at stake as conflict flares in Ethiopia?
Hazardous Earth: Earthquake kills 17 people in Turkey and Greece
Disease dilemmas: Covid-19: The global crisis — in data
Disease dilemmas: Covid-19 will push millions in middle-income nations into poverty, warns World Bank
Earth life support systems: China pledges to be ‘carbon-neutral’ by 2060
Climate change: Wildfires, hurricanes and vanishing sea ice: the climate crisis is here
Changing spaces: Britain’s housing ‘boom’ obscures a divided market
Changing places: High streets face a ‘new normal’ with old problems
Climate change: Arctic Circle’s record temperatures heighten global warming concerns
Changing spaces: Twenty Indian soldiers killed in clash with Chinese troops in Himalayas
Changing spaces/human rights: Coronavirus fuels black America’s sense of injustice
Power and borders: A divided America cannot compete in a superpower duel with China
Power and borders: Donald Trump offers to mediate in India-China border dispute
Human rights: Half a billion children miss out on education due to lockdowns, says UN
Future of food: Global nutrition crisis puts millions more at risk from coronavirus
Power and borders: US looks to exploit anger over Beijing’s South China Sea ambitions
Climate change: Glasgow climate talks on hold over coronavirus
Disease dilemmas: Deprived areas hit hardest in UK by pandemic
Future of food: Warnings of unrest mount as coronavirus hits food availability
Migration: Remittance flows expected to plunge more than $100bn
Future of Food: Coronavirus and a bitter harvest for UK farmers
Changing spaces: Effects of pandemic will widen inequality, report finds
Disease dilemmas: Coronavirus tracked
Globalisation: Businesses call for stability after tax overhaul
Disease: Middle East’s refugees are vulnerable to an explosion of coronavirus cases
Data/migration: The riddle of Europe’s shadow population
Geopolitics: Lentils and war games: Nordics prepare for virus lockdown
Changing spaces: Levelling up: how wide are the UK’s regional inequalities?
Globalisation: Lofty environmental goals present clear test for Modi
Globalisation: Has the ‘Make in India’ campaign run out of steam?
Carbon and water cycle: Atmospheric rivers’ over Atlantic blamed for extreme UK flooding
Data/Population and the environment: What’s killing us now?
Climate change: Record Antarctic temperature met with the sound of cracking ice
Resource security: How Greek energy sources have untapped potential
Disease: The new coronavirus: is China moving quickly enough?
Glaciated landscapes: Himalayas glacier melt accelerates as temperatures rise
Global challenges; Population/environment: How safe is the air we breathe?
Hazardous Earth: Shift in Earth’s magnetic north throws navigators off course
Carbon and water cycle: Amazon’s spectre of devastation
Geopolitics, power and borders: Thirteen French troops killed in Sahel
Earth Life Support Systems: Brazil needs compensation to protect the Amazon
Energy, geopolitics: Russia to launch floating nuclear reactor
Trade, globalisation and place: Nissan reverses Sunderland decision
Coal’s rapid decline drives carbon emissions down to 1890 levels
Declining fertility rates dent Macron’s ‘France is back’ mantra
Britain’s voice in global affairs under threat, warn experts
Diesel buyers face raid as Budget pushes motorists to go electric
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