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War and want: How conflict drives poverty

03:25 According to the World Bank, living below the extreme poverty line means surviving on less than $1.90 a day. But poverty means much more than a lack of income and resources. It in

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Indonesia's fast fashion pollution problems fueled by consumer demand

A protestor in West Java holds a sign saying 'textile waste kills rivers.'/ Fully Handoko/Ecoton Globally, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textile waste is created by the fashion industry ea

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Cambridge dreams turn to nightmares in the COVID-19 pandemic

06:30 In March 2020, as Europe began to shut down to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, few suspected the disruption would continue for over a year. All groups in society were negatively imp

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A stark warning from the book that predicted the 2020 pandemic

Twenty Twenty was published by Hodder and Stoughton in August 1995, the fourth novel written by the acclaimed author Nigel Watts. What made this book remarkable was its "prediction" of a viral pandem

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Fires at Greek island refugee camp force evacuation

Fire in the Vathy refugee camp, Samos. /P. Rafiei Fires have caused the partial evacuation of a refugee camp on the Greek island of Samos. Firefighters are still tackling the blazes, although

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'Let them eat dirt' - the bacteria that can keep us healthy

Eradicating bacteria from our immediate environment has been linked to an assortment of ailments from allergies, multiple sclerosis, leukemia and type-1 diabetes to depression and cancer. Over the la