The fight for clean air
If humans have nothing else in common, it’s that we all need to breathe. But, over 90 per cent of us have to live with polluted air. This edition of New Internationalist takes up the fight for clean air.
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The radical book review
Jo Lateu, Peter Whittaker and Vanessa Baird review the latest releases in radical publishing.
How to stop progress
Dana Drugmand explains how the powerful car industry has continually blocked change to keep us hooked.
‘I don’t want to live like this’
Community journalists from the northeast of England on the impact of air pollution on their lives.
Top of the class
Dirty air is not an impossible problem. Beth Gardiner assesses some places cleaning up their act.
Fed up with the fumes
Dirty air in Nigeria takes a huge toll on lives and livelihoods. But civil society is not short of ideas for change, as Michael...
Hitting the population brakes
Popular wisdom has it that everything is speeding up, including population growth. Danny Dorling shows just how wrong that is...
The hidden polluters
Agricultural air pollution seems to be a tough nut to crack. Amy Hall explores the air-pollution problem down on the farm.
Unfit for habitation
India’s air pollution crisis affects millions, and not just in Delhi. Aruna Chandrasekhar meets people forced to live, and...
Spotlight: Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste talks to Subi Shah about the women who fought Mussolini in Ethiopia.
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