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Hitting the population brakes

Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just how wrong that is – and argues that we are actually in a time of slowdown. A tour of future population prospects for key hotspots

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The fight for clean air

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Forced from home by US airstrikes in the Lower Shabelle region, this girl tries to rest at a camp for internally displaced persons near Mogadishu, Somalia, March 2020.

This Covid-19 crisis is not the ultimate leveller. Just like the financial crash of 2008, it is producing winners and losers. Husna Rizvi presents a round-up of the lesser known stories of social abandonment unfolding.

Dr Asamte Fidel is one of the local Sierra Leonean doctors working at Connaught Hospital. The hospital was on the frontline of the Ebola epidemic when it hit in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: Simon Davis/DFiD

Four years ago, New Internationalist travelled to West Africa to hear the stories of communities in recovery from the deadly Ebola epidemic. Hazel Healy gets back in touch.

Stephanie Boyd on the making of a groundbreaking indigenous film about the pandemic in Peru’s Amazon.

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Dirty air is not an impossible problem. Beth Gardiner assesses some places cleaning up their act.

Child's play: A boy jumps across boats wedged on a mixture of crude oil, water and sand, near Bojo in the Niger Delta. Oil production is a major pollutant in the area. Petterik Wiggers/Panos 

Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as Michael Simire finds out.

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Agricultural air pollution seems to be a tough nut to crack. Amy Hall explores the air-pollution problem down on the farm.

 

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The fight for clean air
/issues/2020/02/17/how-we-make-poverty
How we make poverty
/issues/2019/12/17/freedom-move-everyone
Freedom to move – for everyone
/issues/2019/10/28/china-charge
China in charge
/issues/2020/02/04/who-owns-sea
Who owns the sea?
/issues/2020/02/04/right-city
The right to the city
/issues/2019/04/23/how-avoid-climate-breakdown
How to avoid climate breakdown
/issues/2019/03/06/building-new-internationalism
Building a new internationalism
/issues/2019/01/21/trade-turmoil-chance-justice
Trade in turmoil: A chance for justice?
/issues/2018/11/20/dirt-waste
The dirt on waste

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