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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK

Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.

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Is fake news killing fictive art?

Parafictional artists create projects where the imaginary interacts with real life. But the growth of so-called ‘fake news’ is providing a new challenge.

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Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • Pesticides and veterinary medicines : reporting incidents : guidance for the general public / Health and Safety Executive.
  • Pesticides and veterinary medicines : reporting incidents : guidance for the general public / Health and Safety Executive.
  • Pesticides and veterinary medicines : reporting incidents : guidance for the general public / Health and Safety Executive.
  • Have you or your family ever been worried about the dangers of pesticides on your fruit or vegetables? : Aloe Vera Clean : the insecticide and pesticide remover for fruit and vegetables / Vita Natura.
  • Have you or your family ever been worried about the dangers of pesticides on your fruit or vegetables? : Aloe Vera Clean : the insecticide and pesticide remover for fruit and vegetables / Vita Natura.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Fox, Vulpes vulpes / Dept. of the Environment ; photo: Nature Photographers Ltd.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Fox, Vulpes vulpes / Dept. of the Environment ; photo: Nature Photographers Ltd.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Red kite, Milvus, milvus / Dept. of the Environment ; photo: C.H. Gomersall.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : Red kite, Milvus, milvus / Dept. of the Environment ; photo: C.H. Gomersall.
  • Stop illegal poisoning of our wildlife : yellow labrador / Dept. of the Environment ; photos: Derek Whitehouse.
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