One-third of the world’s grey seals now live the UK’s waters.
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Grey seals are now common in the UK – but their status remains fragile.
Oil is visible in the water of Poole Harbour, Dorset, following an oil leak from a pipeline at an onshore oil field.
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200 barrels of oil ‘reservoir fluid’ have spilled into a large natural harbour surrounded by nature reserves.
A company’s internal structure can provide protection from external events.
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Companies benefit from certain internal environmental and social checks and balances, particularly when it comes to preventing a tumble in their share price.
Decision time: Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve.
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The two central banks were due to raise rates aggressively, but then came the banking crisis.
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He’s a man on five missions but he’ll need to learn from his predecessors to lead Labour back to power after over a decade out of it.
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High rural poverty rates are driven largely by fuel and transport costs.
Pink and white: Mexicans dressed in the colours of the nation’s election monitoring body protest against the recent reforms.
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Many Mexicans fear that the democratic safeguards set up after decades of authoritarian rule are being undermined.
Estonia’s prime minister Kaja Kallas at the European Union leaders’ summit in Brussels, Belgium, in October 2022.
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Estonia is going to the polls but the Ukraine war casts a long shadow over its politics.
Smithfield meat market.
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When buildings with difficult pasts are repurposed, the process often involves navigating between omission and selective remembrance.
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The idea we know more about the Moon than the deep sea is seductive – but it’s 70 years out of date.
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Antipsychotics can have severe side effects, there’s a lack of guidance on how to stop taking these drugs safely.
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Their line up of black and white musicians was a mission statement for a fractured nation, while Hall’s doleful vocals starkly illustrated the politics of disillusionment.
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The pianist and vocalist helped Fleetwood Mac weather the changes in the music world.
Scared and silenced: China’s Uyghur Muslim communities face severe punishment for protesting their treatment.
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Uyghur Muslims died in the fire that sparked the protests, yet their cities remain silent.
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Used wisely, public debt could be a way to improve things for our children and grandchildren.
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India’s drug regulation is loose and results in dangerous medicines being sold at home and abroad.
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Pitting parts of the country against each other in the battle for arts funding will only further hurt a sector still reeling from the pandemic.
Opportunity knocks…
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Housebreakers are no less rational than the rest of us.
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A lump of cells could be given the legal status of a person, or remain a property.
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Les moyens de subsistance sur lesquels les communautés comptent depuis des siècles sont en train d'être criminalisés à travers des restrictions sévères imposées par l'État.