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The Alqueva dam promised prosperity for Portugal’s parched south. Instead, it’s fuelling a corporate-driven monoculture that ecologists and farmers warn is destroying the land and the way of life that ...

Hard coral cover has declined substantially from high levels of recent years back to near long-term average levels ...

More than 25,000 British schools are in areas exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines ...

High in the Andes, Constantino Aucca Chutas is restoring ancient forests and water systems with the help of local communities and Incan tradition ...

Liberland is a sovereign state located between Croatia and Serbia on the west bank of the Danube River. The region came into ...

Humpback whales are swimming up to 20 per cent more than previous scientific estimates have suggested, new study finds ...

Discover more about the four nations who are successfullyreturning to democracy, and how exactly their governments have done so ...

For the first time ever, world court clarifies countries' duties to protect the Earth's climate, communities and ecosystems ...

Designed to topple a regime, sanctions have helped build a fortress economy where loyalty is rewarded and dissent crushed – consolidating Putin’s power.Antonio Graceffo reports ...

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