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Sacred threads of saffron: Kashmir’s struggle to protect the world’s most expensive spice

Saffron production in Kashmir is at an all-time low. In the push and pull between traditional practices and modern methods endorsed by the government, Kashmir’s most coveted crop is losing out to climate change and unplanned urban development.
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Rebuilt by workers: How the laid-off workforce of a car parts factory changed labor rules in Italy
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Shepherdesses smashing stereotypes: The women reviving ancient traditions for a sustainable future
Iran’s internet blackout shows an increasingly powerful tool to reign in democratic movements
On the verge of silence: Why Oaxaca’s biodiversity needs Indigenous languages to survive
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We are facing a global crisis of biodiversity loss that has been called planet Earth’s sixth mass extinction. At the same time, it is estimated that a language goes extinct every two weeks. These two processes are intertwined.

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Migration and Race

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Shepherdesses smashing stereotypes: The women reviving ancient traditions for a sustainable future

Shepherds and their flocks are integral to the history of European culture and ecology. Now, a new generation of pastoralists – from migrants escaping underpaid care work, to science graduates looking for tangible ways to protect the planet – are rewriting patriarchal traditions to preserve it for the future.

“We can only get out of here if we die”: How EU funds to help Roma communities are reinforcing isolation, prejudice and exclusion

Roma people are routinely excluded from jobs, housing and public services. Yet tens of billions of euros to promote Roma inclusion are vanishing into projects with no transparency or measurable impacts. Our investigation found evidence of some of this EU money being spent on displacing or demonizing Roma communities in Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia and Italy.
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Dollar stores, diesel fumes and food sovereignty in Chicago’s frontline communities

In communities shaped by redlining and disinvestment, the only places to shop are often dollar stores – stocked with plastic goods that have crossed oceans on container ships and rolled across states on eighteen-wheelers. These journeys are long, carbon-heavy, and almost invisible, but their impact is felt from Suzhou to Chicago, from the global climate to the human body.

Ecology and extractivism

Nigerian women farmers trapped between climate shocks and microfinance debt

Microfinance loans were meant to offer a pathway out of poverty in countries like Nigeria, particularly for women. But as climate change makes weather patterns more unpredictable, the risk of falling into further debt falls onto the shoulders of women farmers who face not just erratic farming conditions but social stigma from default.

Vietnamese activists’ dilemma: Go public and risk reprisals, or go undercover and go it alone

Arrests of high-profile campaigns suggest that even those working on government-approved green initiatives with international backing aren’t safe from Vietnam’s crackdown on environmental activism. But some warn that staying below the radar can be even more dangerous.

Capulálpam de Méndez: A struggle for land and memory

After a Canadian mining company challenged a Zapotec community’s Indigenous identity, recalling the ancestral names of sacred landmarks helped reinvigorate their connection to the land – and defend it from extractive industries.
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1000 Lives, 0 Names: 
The Border Graves Investigation
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What happens to those who die in their attempts to reach the European Union? How are their lives marked, how can their families honor them? How do governments recognize their existence and their basic rights as human beings?

Conflict and state violence

Iran’s internet blackout shows an increasingly powerful tool to reign in democratic movements
Sophisticated new techniques for blocking public access to the internet show how autocratic governments have benefited from the monopolized tech landscape. It’s time to rethink how we connect and report, writes Sabrina Faramarzi.
Venezuela without Venezuelans
As bombs fall and power shifts, Venezuela is reframed as a geopolitical case study, while the voices of those living through the crisis are pushed aside. The gap between global commentary and lived reality turns human crisis into abstraction and exposes what is lost when journalism explains power while erasing the people who endure it, writes Gabriela Ramirez.
Vietnamese activists’ dilemma: Go public and risk reprisals, or go undercover and go it alone
Arrests of high-profile campaigns suggest that even those working on government-approved green initiatives with international backing aren’t safe from Vietnam’s crackdown on environmental activism. But some warn that staying below the radar can be even more dangerous.
Children walk alongside a border fence with the shadow of security over them
Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages
India and Bangladesh share a 4,000 kilometer-long border, which looms large for children of living alongside it, particularly those whose parents have suffered abuse at the hands of the Border Security Force.

Gender and Sexuality

A woman on a golden field holds sheep while walking by a windmill
Shepherdesses smashing stereotypes: The women reviving ancient traditions for a sustainable future
Shepherds and their flocks are integral to the history of European culture and ecology. Now, a new generation of pastoralists – from migrants escaping underpaid care work, to science graduates looking for tangible ways to protect the planet – are rewriting patriarchal traditions to preserve it for the future.
Nigerian women farmers trapped between climate shocks and microfinance debt
Microfinance loans were meant to offer a pathway out of poverty in countries like Nigeria, particularly for women. But as climate change makes weather patterns more unpredictable, the risk of falling into further debt falls onto the shoulders of women farmers who face not just erratic farming conditions but social stigma from default.
Sierra Mixe: A conversation with Mother Nature
Medicinal wisdom is embedded in Indigenous Mixe languages. By sustaining their mother tongue and practices involving herbs and healing rituals, Mixe people keep alive a cosmovision in which they speak to Mother Earth.
How migrant women in the UK are breaking the isolation around maternal mental health
“The people who face the most barriers are often those who need our care the most – and yet their voices are not the ones we hear in maternity care." ​

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