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Power and borders

• What is next for Syria after Assad’s fall?

• Britain’s national security demands more than a defence review

• Francis Fukuyama: what Trump unleashed means for America

• Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has triggered doubts among Russian elite, spy chiefs say

• Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has triggered doubts among Russian elite, spy chiefs say

• Sweden joins ‘Nato lake’ on Moscow’s doorstep

• US vetoes UN resolution calling for immediate ceasefire in Gaza

• Gaza — the history of an embattled territory

Global migration

• The ‘brain waste’ of skilled migrants in Europe

• Sunak under pressure as net migration to UK hits record 745,000

• Britain’s migrant policy is in disarray

• Migration to rich countries hits record high in 2023

Changing spaces

• How the Bank of Mum and Dad reshaped the British economy

• Inside the mind of a Nimby

• A pre-election journey across Britain’s neglected north

• Global population to shrink this century as birth rates fall

• To fix towns, politicians must not forget about cities

• A northern English town looks to BAE Systems to help it ‘level up’

• The Nimby tax on Britain and America

Carbon and water cycle

• The small Scottish loch holding an answer to how the UK could reach net zero

• Panama Canal traffic recovers from drought caused by El Niño, study finds

• Dutch kick-start European attempts at carbon capture

• Huge ice loss risks Antarctica’s ‘destabilisation’

• Atmospheric rivers set to hit US west coast

• Amazon river at lowest in 121 years

Disease dilemmas

• Keir Starmer to ban TV junk food ads before 9pm in UK public health drive

• Bird flu and mpox show little learnt from Covid about future pandemics

• Big rise in diseases linked to ageing and lifestyle increases healthcare burden

• China hopes for ‘dragon babies’ as population decline gathers pace

Hazardous earth

• The next critical mineral source could be volcanic soup

• Morocco vows to rebuild as hopes fade for more earthquake survivors

Climate change

• How each country’s emissions and climate pledges compare

• UK regulators approve plans for new Rosebank North Sea oilfield

• Earth outside ‘safe operating zone’ for humans in crucial areas, scientists find

• The sudden warming of the oceans

• First days of June bring record heat

Earlier articles:

• Supply chains: Severe drought in Panama hits global shipping industry

• Climate change: The sudden warming of the oceans

• Climate change: First days of June bring record heat

• Changing spaces: ‘New town’ offers vision of how to breathe life back into ailing UK high streets

• Climate change: Will El Niño return for a heated-up 2023?

• Health and Changing Spaces: ‘Population anxiety’ fuelling harmful fertility policies, says UN

• Power and borders: Xi Jinping to test limits of friendship with Putin

• Changing spaces: HS2 rail project delayed by 2 years to save costs

• Glaciation - Climate graphic of the week: Glacial lakes flood risks rise

• ower and borders: How to contain a recalcitrant Russia

• Hazardous Earth: Turkey and Syria’s devastating earthquakes in graphics

• Power and borders: Geography is (almost) everything

• Changing spaces: China’s population falls in historic shift

• Earth Life Support Systems - Climate graphic of the week: ‘alarming’ trends revealed in weather reports

• Climate change: Scientists study how wavy jet stream plus ‘extra warmth’ fuels extreme weather

• Changing spaces: Big cities drive half of global economic growth

• Hazardous earth: Mauna Loa eruption provides unique research opportunity for volcanologists

• Disease dilemmas: Global floods and droughts will intensify sooner than expected, studies show

• Changing spaces: World population reaches 8bn as it grows older

• Disease dilemmas: UK lags behind comparable countries in cancer survival rates, study finds

• Disease dilemmas: Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows

• Climate change: World on track for up to 2.6C temperature rise by 2100, reports UN

• Power and borders: Crimean bridge explosion leaves Russian supply lines exposed

• Climate change: The new era of stronger hurricanes

• Changing spaces: Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

• Changing places: Why are UK home energy bills going through the roof?

• Disease dilemmas: Overweight England struggles to break the ‘junk food cycle’

• Power and borders: UN envoy ‘unable to assess’ scale of Xinjiang repression

• Climate change: ‘Megadrought’ threatens water and power supplies to millions in US

• Climate change: Record carbon dioxide levels alarm scientists

• Ecosystems under stress: Trouble in Costa Rica’s eco-paradise as homebuyers heat up market

• Global change: War in Ukraine makes farming innovation imperative

• Climate change: Polar regions experience extremes as world warms

• Changing spaces: How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town?

• Carbon and water cycle: The rise of ‘extreme weather attribution’

• Power and borders: Russia’s invasion to have ‘enormous impact’ on world food supplies

• Geographical skills: War in Ukraine reminds us that maps can be weapons

• Changing Spaces: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps — latest updates

• Changing Spaces: What teenagers can teach us about creating better places to live

• Global resource consumption: Macron restarts France’s ‘nuclear adventure’ with plans for 6 reactors

• Changing Spaces: Five takeaways from the UK’s levelling-up plan

• Changing Spaces: How the UK high street was hit by the pandemic: look up your area

• Food and health: The US’s hidden minority hit hard by Covid

• Disease dilemmas: Antibiotic resistance kills over 1m people a year, says study

• Global change: Hydrogen power forecast to bring new dimension to energy geopolitics

• Climate change: Weather events cost the US $145bn in 2021 as climate change took hold

• Global change: Britain needs immigrants if it is to survive the climate storm

• Changing spaces: Wealth inequality rises in Britain after decade of stability

• Climate change: Deaths mount after ‘unprecedented’ tornadoes devastate parts of US

• Earth Life Support Systems: La Niña expected to intensify global rain and drought after second consecutive year

• Global migration: Belarus moves migrants away from Polish border camp

• Power and borders: Belarus seeks Russian missiles as border tensions rise

• Earth Life Support Systems: Policing the Amazon: on the front lines of deforestation

• Climate change: COP26: How every country’s emissions and climate pledges compare

• Power and borders: China tests new space capability with hypersonic missile

• Global climate: How green is your electric vehicle?

• Disease dilemmas: WHO backs deployment of first malaria vaccine for children

• Changing Spaces/Hazardous Earth: La Palma’s volcano thrills onlookers — but should the ‘lava chasers’ be stopped?

• Disease dilemmas: World’s biggest cities fail on tougher WHO air pollution standards

• Global migration: The Turkish wall built to keep out refugees from Afghanistan

• Climate change risks triggering catastrophic tsunamis, scientist warns

• Power and Borders: Africa has quietly become the epicentre of the Islamist threat

• Global Change: Pandemic and higher food prices fuel sharp rise in global hunger

• Changing spaces: Half of all bikes sold in Europe will be electric by 2025, predicts manufacturer

• Global Interactions: What’s fuelling China’s new online nationalists

• Global Change: How heatwaves became climate change’s silent killer

• Changing spaces: Instability in the Sahel: how a jihadi gold rush is fuelling violence in Africa

• Changing spaces: How acute inequality scars Cornish idyll hosting G7 summit

• Global climate: How can the world get to net zero emissions by 2050?

• Global climate: Europe’s Climate Leaders 2021

• Disease dilemmas: Covid threat and drought combine to put India’s tea harvest at risk

• Changing spaces: Building blocks: how Birmingham is emerging from London’s shadow

• IB Global Trends in Consumption: UAE’s Taqa seeks to shine with solar energy push

• Climate Change: Forest fires spread across Indian Himalayan state

• Power and borders: US offers to help Egypt unblock Suez Canal

• Global Interactions: How the KitKat went global

• Global migration: Biden scrambles to cope with rising number of migrant children

• Climate change: Polar vortex sends Texas into deep freeze

• IB DP Global change: Pandemic blamed for falling birth rates across much of Europe

• IB DP Urban environments: Saudi Arabia's mega-project: a 170km line city through the desert

• Changing spaces: Inside the ‘Covid Triangle’: a catastrophe years in the making

• Power and borders: US launches air strikes against Iran-linked militias in Syria

• IB DP Global interactions: Denmark raises investment in Arctic surveillance to counter Russian build-up

• Climate change: Go-ahead for Cumbrian coal mine put on hold

• IB DP Global resource consumption: India’s energy demands to grow more than those of other countries, says IEA chief

• IB DP Urban environments: How cities around the world are tackling climate change

• Earth’s life support systems: Egypt’s farmers on front line in battle against water scarcity

• Power as borders: US warns Beijing over incursion into Taiwanese air defence zone

• Global migration: Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK

• Climate change: Brazil denudes rainforest further in 2020

• Changing spaces: Destitution levels soared in the UK, even before the pandemic

• Power and borders: UK to send troops to Mali peacekeeping operation

• Power and borders: Constitutional question at the heart of Ethiopia’s fight in Tigray

• Earth life support systems: Pollution results less impressive during second European lockdown

• Climate change/data skills: Siberia experiences record temperatures

• Power and borders: What’s at stake as conflict flares in Ethiopia?

• Hazardous Earth: Earthquake kills 17 people in Turkey and Greece

• Disease dilemmas: Covid-19: The global crisis — in data

• Disease dilemmas: Covid-19 will push millions in middle-income nations into poverty, warns World Bank

• Earth life support systems: China pledges to be ‘carbon-neutral’ by 2060

• Climate change: Wildfires, hurricanes and vanishing sea ice: the climate crisis is here

• Changing spaces: Britain’s housing ‘boom’ obscures a divided market

• Changing places: High streets face a ‘new normal’ with old problems

• Climate change: Arctic Circle’s record temperatures heighten global warming concerns

• Changing spaces: Twenty Indian soldiers killed in clash with Chinese troops in Himalayas

• Changing spaces/human rights: Coronavirus fuels black America’s sense of injustice

• Power and borders: A divided America cannot compete in a superpower duel with China

• Power and borders: Donald Trump offers to mediate in India-China border dispute

• Human rights: Half a billion children miss out on education due to lockdowns, says UN

• Hazard: Why we fail to prepare for disasters

• Future of food: Global nutrition crisis puts millions more at risk from coronavirus

• Power and borders: US looks to exploit anger over Beijing’s South China Sea ambitions

• Climate change: Glasgow climate talks on hold over coronavirus

• Disease dilemmas: Deprived areas hit hardest in UK by pandemic

• Future of food: Warnings of unrest mount as coronavirus hits food availability

• Migration: Remittance flows expected to plunge more than $100bn

• Future of Food: Coronavirus and a bitter harvest for UK farmers

• Changing spaces: Effects of pandemic will widen inequality, report finds

• Disease dilemmas: Coronavirus tracked

• Globalisation: Businesses call for stability after tax overhaul

• Disease: Middle East’s refugees are vulnerable to an explosion of coronavirus cases

• Data/migration: The riddle of Europe’s shadow population

• Geopolitics: Lentils and war games: Nordics prepare for virus lockdown

• Changing spaces: Levelling up: how wide are the UK’s regional inequalities?

• Globalisation: Lofty environmental goals present clear test for Modi

• Globalisation: Has the ‘Make in India’ campaign run out of steam?

• Carbon and water cycle: Atmospheric rivers’ over Atlantic blamed for extreme UK flooding

• Data/Population and the environment: What’s killing us now?

• Climate change: Record Antarctic temperature met with the sound of cracking ice

• Resource security: How Greek energy sources have untapped potential

• Disease: The new coronavirus: is China moving quickly enough?

• Glaciated landscapes: Himalayas glacier melt accelerates as temperatures rise

• Global challenges; Population/environment: How safe is the air we breathe?

• Hazardous Earth: Shift in Earth’s magnetic north throws navigators off course

• Carbon and water cycle: Amazon’s spectre of devastation

• Geopolitics, power and borders: Thirteen  French troops killed in Sahel

• UK halts all fracking

• Disease dilemmas: What’s killing us now?

• Earth Life Support Systems: Brazil needs compensation to protect the Amazon

• Energy, geopolitics: Russia to launch floating nuclear reactor

• Power and Borders. Niger: war at the heart of west Africa

• Carbon and water cycle: Great Barrier Reef at risk

• Health: Finland’s demographic time-bomb

• Global development: Mali’s community health programme

• Trade, globalisation and place: Nissan reverses Sunderland decision

• Global development, globalisation: Commodities exploitation

• Regional inequality: North and South gap widens

• Disease and  health: Bill Gates invests in toilets

• Energy security/carbon cycle: fracking

• Global migration: EU migration in Britain

• Geopolitics/power relations: the fracturing of the west

• Disease dilemmas: urban air pollution

• Mattis attacks Beijing for ‘coercion’ in South China Sea

• Mid-sized powers must unite to preserve the world order

• Coal’s rapid decline drives carbon emissions down to 1890 levels

• Donald Trump agrees to meet Kim Jong Un

• Arctic enveloped in warmth as Europe shivers

• Aung San Suu Kyi rebuked by US adviser over Rohingya crisis

• Declining fertility rates dent Macron’s ‘France is back’ mantra

• Britain’s voice in global affairs under threat, warn experts

• Diesel buyers face raid as Budget pushes motorists to go electric

• Left behind: can anyone save the towns the economy forgot?

• The migrant’s journey, in photographs: ‘We had to escape’

• Migrant labour shortage leaves fruit rotting on UK farms

• Can Leo Houlding rewrite the rules of Antarctic exploration

• Spain’s crisis is the next challenge for the EU