Human Interest

Over 1 billion activities, 13 trillion data points create the ultimate map of athlete playgrounds.

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Wayne Lotter had received numerous death threats while battling international ivory-trafficking networks

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As you may have noticed, we've now removed all full episodes of Channel 4, E4 and More4 programmes from our 4oD channels on YouTube. As a not-for-profi

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Behavioural evidence suggests marine organisms are not just ingesting microplastics by accident but actively seeking them out as food

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In 1998 Charles Moore, an oceanographer, was sailing across the North Pacific when he made an unwelcome discovery.  “As I gazed from the deck at the surface of what ought to have been a pristine ocean, I was confronted, as far as the eye could see, with the sight of plastic,” Moore wrote in Natural History magazine. 

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Some global corporations are trying to address the environmental impact of throwaway culture, but campaigners say they remain part of the problem

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How the tech giants are employing top architects to build spectacular symbols of their immense global power

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A new gold rush is targeting rich ores on the ocean floor containing valuable metals needed for smartphones and green technologies, but also hosting exotic ecosystems

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City has just scooped CNN poll but official says ‘every street vendor will have to move out’ by end of 2017

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Ahead of 2017 French presidential election, head of far-right party is confident Brexit and Donald Trump have helped her cause

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Last year, photographer Matt Black documented the logistics chain of international food aid from a warehouse hub in Dubai to Unity State in South Sudan, where famine has just been declared

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These 25 Companies Are More Powerful Than Many Countries « | Foreign Policy | the Global Magazine of News and Ideas

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In Spain and Italy, the answer is clear – a mixture of austerity and central government failures has prompted regional dissatisfaction. Elsewhere, the reasons are more complicated, but they’re not going away

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New statistics have revealed the extent of the world’s obesity epidemic, with obesity rising tenfold in children over the past four decades. In addition to this, another 213 million children were classed as overweight.

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Travel opens our eyes to the world – but it also means closing them. We ignore the hordes of people like us, all of whom want authentic tapas and a photo for Instagram

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As you may have noticed, we've now removed all full episodes of Channel 4, E4 and More4 programmes from our 4oD channels on YouTube. As a not-for-profi

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An increase in visitors is putting severe strain on Iceland’s ability to cope

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We applaud ourselves for spending 0.7% of GDP on aid, but it’s self-interest dressed up as benevolence, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

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Workers complain of verbal abuse, impossible targets and ‘poverty pay’ so bad they have to live away from their children

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Photographer Jimmy Nelson traveled the world to document the cultures of indigenous tribes at risk of disappearing. It took him over four years to complete his project and the result is the brilliant book “Before They Pass Away.”

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Donald Trump is a creep and unpleasant to look at, but at least he’s not a stunning hypocrite when it comes to climate change

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The US won't be blowing other economies out of the water for much longer.

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Unctad reports weakest year of GDP growth in 20 years for least developed nations, scuppering hopes that half would escape extreme poverty by 2020

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