10 March 2023

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Methane, Nigerian Elections, Female Fury And Vast Music Arenas
It’s no secret that methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases, with scientists attributing 25% of global heating to its atmospheric release. But a new Guardian analysis by environment editor Damian Carrington lays bare the exent of the probl
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Global Report
UN states finally agree treaty to protect high seas It had been almost two decades in the making, but late last Saturday night in New York, after days of gruelling round-the-clock debate and a full day after the deadline for talks had officially pass
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Science And Environment
Human augmentation with robotic body parts is at hand Human augmentation could be on the horizon, say researchers, suggesting additional robotic body parts could be designed to boost our capabilities. Tamar Makin, a professor of cognitive neuroscienc
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Global report United Kingdom
Sunak’s small boat plan ‘electioneering’ – Starmer Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of electioneering as the prime minister’s plans to detain and swiftly deport thousands of asylum seekers were greeted with scepticism from unions, refugee charities a
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A Ticking Time Bomb Of Methane Leaks
More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m run
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‘Everyone Should Be Concerned’ Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches Lowest Levels Ever Recorded
For 44 years, satellites have helped scientists track how much ice is floating on the ocean around Antarctica’s 18,000km coastline. The continent’s fringing waters undergo a massive shift each year, with sea ice peaking at about 18m sq km each Septem
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Old Guard Why Africa’s ‘Dinosaur’ Leaders Keep On Winning
A couple of kilometres from the crashing breakers of the Atlantic, in one of the most affluent parts of Lagos, visitors admire the paintings on the walls of the Nike Art Gallery, one of the biggest such private institutions in Africa. Among the galle
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President’s Racist Rhetoric Wins Fans And Feeds Outrage
A group of men and women from Sierra Leone gathered by makeshift tents outside the Tunis offices of the International Organisation for Migration. A young man, withholding his name, spoke for all. “They came for us with knives and machetes. They robbe
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‘Putin Has Gone Mad With Power’: Dissident Speaks Out
Writing from a cell in a Russian jail known as the Bear, Ilya Yashin remained defiant. In neat, blue-ink lettering, the opposition politician was able to express himself candidly despite his incarceration. Removing Vladimir Putin from power, he wrote
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Living Under Constant Threat ’Our Village Was Ransacked – It Is A Sport For Them’
As I left Burin last Sunday – taking several buses to Amman in Jordan before a flight to London – news broke about violence in several villages, including mine, which is just south of the city of Nablus. The centre of the attacks has been on neighbou
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Have Schoolgirls Been Poisoned For Daring To Protest?
More than 1,000 Iranian girls in schools across the country appear to have suffered “mild poison” attacks since November, when first cases emerged in Qom city, according to state media and officials. The suspected attacks have been described by some
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‘Someone Has To Pay’ Grief And Fury Over Rail Disaster
First came the mourning, then the handover of loved ones, then the funerals. Last Friday, it was Athina Katsara, the young mother of a toddler, carried in a white coffin out of Katerini’s church in the first funeral of the first “angel” to die in Gre
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Eyewitness China
Attendants carry tea pots before the opening of the annual gathering of the Chinese Communist party’s advisory body at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The event runs concurrently alongside the National People’s Congress (NPC), with the “two
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Has Sensible Sunak Saved Tory Ship – Or Has Johnson Scuttled It?
Before they were bussed off to Windsor last Thursday for a fun-filled awayday on how to approach the next general election, many Conservative MPs believed a corner might just have been turned in their party’s fortunes. Rishi Sunak appeared to have pu
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Buried Truths State Secrets Are No Comfort For Those Bereaved By Arena Bomb
In a frustrating final report, the chair of the Manchester Arena inquiry half got at the truth. Could the suicide bombing at the Ariana Grande concert on 22 May 2017 have been prevented? Sir John Saunders admitted his approach will have “raised more
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Eco Paradise Balkan State That Wants A Better Quality Of Tourist
Albania, one of Europe’s fastest-growing travel destinations, will focus on alternative rather than mass tourism in a move that government officials hope will help set it apart from competitors. The small Balkan state has soared in popularity on the
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Propaganda Or History? Lavish Epic Has Viewers In Its Grip
It is blockbuster TV, with Romans and Vikings, knights and Neanderthals, trains and the trenches of the first world war – and a hefty dose of political controversy. The Story of Flanders, a 10-part history series airing in Belgium’s northern region s
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Indigenous Lands Where Elite Force Is Targeting Mine Gangs
For the past four years Brazil’s rainforests bled. “They bled like never before,” said Felipe Finger as he prepared to venture into the jungle with his assault rifle to staunch the environmental carnage inflicted on the Amazon under the former far-ri
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Loop Dreams
Ronald Mallett thinks he has cracked time travel. The secret, he says, is in twisting the fabric of space-time with a ring of rotating lasers to make a loop of time that would allow you to travel backwards. It will take a lot more explaining and expe
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Tik’d Off? App Faces Uncertain Future As Ban Calls Grow
The Chinese spy balloon that hovered over the US earlier this year did not just damage relations between Beijing and Washington, it also cast a shadow over the future of TikTok. Last week, a US congressional committee backed legislation that would gi
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Trump Can Still Draw A Crowd, But Empty Seats Tell A Story
It fell to Steve Bannon, far-right podcaster and political pugilist, to wake up the crowd with a jolt. “Don’t fall for the primary stuff,” he urged in a fiery speech. “It’s not relevant. We don’t have time for on-the-job training [instead of] a man t
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The Age Of Female Rage
THERE IS A JAR of severed heads sitting on the windowsill of Gemma Whiddett’s waiting room. China heads, to be precise, that customers have gleefully smashed from the shoulders of figurines she finds in charity shops. She drops the latest head into t
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“There I Was, With A Ringside Seat On History”
ON THE EVE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S first democratic elections [in 1994] I slept at the home of a family in Soweto so I could accompany them to the polls the next day. A thick fog hung low over the township that morning and was only just beginning to burn o
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Opinion
It has taken a very short time for artificial intelligence application ChatGPT to have a disruptive effect on journalism. A technology columnist for the New York Times wrote that a chatbot expressed feelings (which is impossible). Other media outlets
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The Obsession With Men’s Height Should Be Given Short Shrift
Shorter men appeared to be having a moment last year. A social movement, which had started in 2018 with a tweet by a young American comedian, was hitting the mainstream. Jaboukie Young-White had been tired of “short” being used as an insult. “‘Short’
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Anti-lockdowners Are Filling A Covid Inquiry Gap With Their Agenda
Awar of words played out over the first two years of the pandemic. On one side were commentators and scientists opposed to any form of social restriction as a way of keeping infection rates down. On the other, those who argued the government should b
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Farmers Must Be Brought On Board To Secure Success On Critical Path To Net Zero
Until relatively recently, Dutch farming prowess was hailed as one of the wonders of the global economy. In 2017, a National Geographic article encapsulated a sense of national pride at the Netherlands’ status as the second-biggest exporter of agricu
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Bands On The Run
SCREEN Close call: how Lukas Dhont beat the bullies Page 55 → On the face of things, it appears we are living in a golden age for live arena music. In the UK alone, eight new purpose-built large venues – in London, Manchester, Gateshead, Edinburgh, C
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When Did Fashion Get Cosy With Fortnite?
The revered French fashion house Louis Vuitton made a surprise announcement in December 2015 about the advertising campaign for its forthcoming spring-summer collection. The range of clothes and accessories would be modelled on screen and in the page
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Up Close And Personal
Lukas Dhont has made two award-winning films about the agony of adolescence: Girl, his 2018 portrait of a transgender ballet dancer; and now Close, which concerns the fragile friendship between two 13-year-old boys. So perhaps it is only natural that
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Reviews
The Mandalorian, series three Disney+ If you’re not fully plugged into the Star Wars universe, Disney+ has stitched you up by continuing The Mandalorian when you weren’t looking. The show has returned for a third season, but last year’s final three
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Fiction
Most of the characters in Margaret Atwood’s latest book are old, or heading that way, and their stories unwrap what TS Eliot called the gifts reserved for age. There are fragments of lives, full of sass and sadness. The book is in three parts: a misc
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Hippie Shakes Th E Booker Winner’s Beautifully Constructed Climate Crisis Thriller Nonetheless Leaves The Reader Searching For A Little More Depth
In a literary marketplace that sometimes seems oversupplied with novels about brittle intellectuals feeling alienated from their emotions, or twentysomethings grinding axes about their exes, there is the wonder of Eleanor Catton: a novelist of lavish
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Books Of The Month
By Sharon Olds “Climbing the stairs, slowly, on my palms / … / how much difference is there, anymore, / between me and a cadaver?” Judging by the 80-year-old Sharon Olds’s new collection, the answer is: a lot. The book covers the death of her partner
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Psychology
What does it mean to master a skill – drawing, dancing or driving – and how do you actually do it? That is the question New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik asks in The Real Work, and it becomes the springboard for a discussion of art, family, empathy, mort
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Spring May Not Have Sprung Yet, But The Tortoise Has
I am standing in the kitchen, trying to remember why I came in here, when I feel eyes on me. I turn around to see the tortoise in the middle of the floor, gazing up with his usual, vaguely pissed-off expression. “Well, well, well,” I say. “Where have
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Go Against The Grain To Poach Pears Or Melt Fondue In Your Rice Cooker
What else can I do with my wonderful rice cooker? Jo, London, England, UK “Oh, so much,” says Amy Poon, the founder of Poon’s London. “I use my rice cooker like a (not so) slow cooker.” To best understand what else you can do with it, consider how ri
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The Weekly Recipe
Prep 20 min Cook 10 min Set 3 hr 30 min Serves 6 • VEGAN 4 medjool dates (90g), stones removed, soaked in boiling water for 20 minutes160ml soy milk140g tahini20ml maple syrup Salt 120g dark chocolate chips (or a slab broken into small pieces)150g si
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Country Diary
After a week with flu, I’m yearning for the outdoors. As it is, the dark clouds and close air make for an ominous atmosphere – but what I’m here for is hopeful and joyous. I’m at Hengistbury Head, a popular nature reserve in Bournemouth, to co-lead a
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Chess
The world No 4, Alireza Firouzja, the 19-year-old of the alternative fashion design career, will be back to chess in May, when the St Louis-backed Grand Chess Tour kicks off with the Superbet Classic in Bucharest, Romania, and ends six months later w

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