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A bad atmosphere in the Balkans

The citizens of Belgrade, one of the most polluted cities in Europe, are finally pushing back against the polluters, whose activities they’ve been encouraged to accept.

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The ambivalence of air

Daisy Lafarge investigates the effects of air quality and pressure on body and mind, exploring air as cure, but one with contradictions.

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Tracing the toxic story of tear gas

Investigating tear gas – from factory to Black Lives Matter protest – Imani Jacqueline Brown uncovers a toxic legacy where pollution, violence and racism are intimately entwined.

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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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  • Meteorology: atmospheric effects. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1846, after himself.
  • Astronomy: an atmospheric condition producing sun dogs, giving the effect of two suns. Engraving by F.R. Hay, 1820, after W.M. (?) Craig.
  • A continuation of New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The I. part. Written by way of letter, to the Right Honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan. Whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
  • A continuation of New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring and weight of the air, and their effects. The I. part. Written by way of letter, to the Right Honourable the Lord Clifford and Dungarvan. Whereto is annext a short discourse of the atmospheres of consistent bodies / By the Honourable Robert Boyle.
  • A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.
  • Three women are picking up the small pieces of corn left in the fields after harvesting. Etching by A. Masson after J.F. Millet.
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