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How water came back to Aral Sea

How water came back to Aral Sea

Something is moving in what was once the world’s fourth biggest lake.
India's ‘Smart City’ plan stumbles over slums

India's ‘Smart City’ plan stumbles over slums

India's $15 billion grand project to transform cities into models of tech and infrastructural innovation is already in trouble.
Finding home: the homelessness crisis across the West

Finding home: the homelessness crisis across the West

With house prices and rents soaring, can there be a remedy to homelessness? Wayne Ellwood investigates.
The earth just moved...

The earth just moved...

In the wake of the election results, Chris Brazier reflects on a momentous night in British politics.
How do you break the homelessness cycle?

How do you break the homelessness cycle?

Sian Griffiths reports on a no-nonsense movement which is reshaping traditional solutions to chronic homelessness
Why May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Why May’s approach to social mobility is incoherent

Simon Chandler analyses the Tory manifesto and May’s speeches, and explains why their efforts to tackle inequality are a facade

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When the lake ran dry

Amy Booth visits a Bolivian isolated indigenous community fallen on hard times, striving to keep their culture alive

Escape to the street

More and more young people are becoming homeless across the West. Catherine Yeomans reports on how to tackle the issue

Death and re-birth of a lake: How water came back to the dry Aral Sea

The once-world’s fourth biggest lake was thought gone forever and a source of decades of environmental disaster. But something is changing.

New Internationalist's picks for films of the month

Machines; The Other Side of Hope: what should be on your watchlist this month.

India's ‘Smart City’ plan stumbles over slums

India’s $15 billion grand project to transform cities into models of tech and infrastructural innovation is already in trouble. Nimisha Jaiswal investigates

Homelessness – the facts

Everything you need to know about homelessness, from this month’s magazine.

How do you break the homelessness cycle?

Sian Griffiths reports on a no-nonsense movement which is reshaping traditional solutions to chronic homelessness

Blogs

Abused and abandoned: Struggles facing Congo’s returning girl soldiers

Sandra Olsson examines the often overlooked role of female child soldiers and the difficulties endured at war and at home.

An interminable trial for tweeting – when will it end?

Bahraini human rights defender Nabeel Rajab was arrested 365 days ago for tweets against the war in Yemen, and his 13th hearing of his endless trial is tomorrow, writes Sophie Baggott.

UK general elections: the result viewed by an outsider

Indian writer Mari Marcel Thekaekara was in Britain during the elections, and writes her impression of campaigns and results.

Corbyn’s achievement sends us a rare, resounding message: hope

As May forms an unholy alliance with the DUP, there is a sense that a movement has been born, writes Jamie Kelsey-Fry.

The earth just moved…

In the wake of the election results, Chris Brazier reflects on a momentous night in British politics.

UK General Election: Youth #votingforhope

Young people don’t vote, we’re told. It’s time for you to prove them wrong, writes Jim Cranshaw.

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