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Well-intentioned businesses have been enthusiastic customers of carbon credits. They've been offsetting their emissions by buying credits from companies promising to stop exploitative timber harvesting, whilst lifting locals out of poverty. But there is a vast chasm between what is marketed and what is really happening on the ground. In Papua New Guinea, one company is wreaking environmental deva…
Tensions between China and the United States over Taiwan are the highest since the 1970s. With President Xi Jinping publicly warning he will take Taiwan by force if necessary, military strategists are now war gaming just what such an act of aggression would mean for the Pacific and Australia.
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Following months of brutal occupation by Russian forces, Ukrainians are still refusing to be beaten down. With many areas now liberated, people are sharing stories of trauma and hardship, hope and survival.
The Sami people are indigenous to Europe, their traditional lands crossing northern Scandinavia and into the Arctic Circle. They've fought for elected representative bodies to be their voice to governments - known as Sami Parliaments.
Many species of rhino are endangered, threatened by poaching due to the value of their horns. But in Zimbabwe, rhinos are making a comeback thanks to a wildlife sanctuary's elite anti-poaching team.
After months of escalating protests in Sri Lanka, protestors stormed the Presidential palace and occupied its grounds. Now, many of the protestors are in hiding, as the regime under the new president hunts them down.
In China, many families are being stretched to their limit as they care for elderly relatives with dementia. There's little awareness about the disease, and few government services to provide support.
The Colorado River supplies water to tens of millions. But its water levels are dropping as a result of the pressures of the decades-long megadrought in America's Southwest, and a warming planet.
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