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2. THE WAR THE WORLD FORGOT: The war that devastated Tigray between November 2020 and 2023 may be officially over, but war crimes are still taking place in Ethiopia's most northerly region. With the UN turning its back and the world's attention elsewhere, starving and displaced civilians feel forgotten
3. STUCK IN THE MIDDLE: In Abyei, a land sandwiched between Sudan and South Sudan, but belonging to neither, staff from Medecins Sans Frontieres are working hard to bring life-saving treatment to desperate communities
4. INFINITE LIFE: A revolutionary story of eggs, evolution and life on Earth
5. EVE
6. MOUNTAINS BEFORE MOUNTAINEERING: The call of the peaks before the modern age
7. CRITICAL MATERIALS: THE TRANSITION TO GREEN TECHNOLOGY RELIES HEAVILY ON A PLETHORA OF RAW MATERIALS
8. WHERE ARE YOU FROM? NO. WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM?
9. MINING THE DEEP: The ocean floor is home to rich deposits of metals and minerals crucial to the transition to net zero. But should we use them?
10. TIME AND TIDE: The Long, Long Life of Landscape
11. LOCAL: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness
12. Looking for good news
13. Halal tourism: With the market for Muslim travellers growing at pace, holiday-makers and travellers are broadening their horizons
14. Light and power: Access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa is the worst in the world, a fact that touches every facet of people's lives there. But change can happen with the right policies in place
15. Categorising: life: Classifying a group of organisms as a separate species has significant implications for conservation. But the science behind such decisions is far from settled
16. SEXUALITY & THE CITY: In cities around the world, the geography of homosexuality is shifting. As historic bars and clubs close down, or where they never existed, queer people are finding other ways to gather
17. Seeking a better life
18. Harm and hope
19. England has long suffered from a North-South divide. Despite numerous attempts to tackle it, the rift shows no sign of healing
20. When the borders shut: The sudden cessation of international tourism as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the world's largest employer to a standstill, with widespread hardship following in its wake. Can the sector recover?
21. Engineering the climate: Katie Burton explores the practicalities and ethics of geoengineering, the controversial science that could quickly cool the atmosphere
22. LESSONS FROM NATURE
23. No Oil, No Coal, No Future? It is supposed to ease the transfer of workers in high-carbon industries and environment-destroying jobs into cleaner, greener alternatives, without destroying their livelihoods in the process. But if the so-called 'Just Transition' holds all the answers, why aren't governments around the world listening?
24. Grub's Up: Some scientists and businesses are convinced that farming insects could help provide the world's growing population with protein, while also reducing organic waste, lowering carbon emissions and reducing land use. But do the economics of the insect industry stack up and will anyone be persuaded to eat them?
25. Addressing the Unaddressed: Most of us will have never considered the importance of having a home address, but for millions of people on the planet, lacking one can have serious consequences
26. Investigation of the expression pattern and functional importance of the Gnasxl-encoded XLαs protein of the imprinted Gnas Locus
27. Eastbound and up: The story of Margate is one of early success, severe downturn, and now revival, through a conscious strategy of 'culture-led regeneration' which has seen thousands of Londoners flock to the east coast. But can the injection of culture and a splash of new blood really change lives for the better, and if so, for whom?
28. GREEN DREAM?
29. RISE OF THE JELLIES: Many scientists believe that jellyfish numbers are increasing, pointing to their remarkable resilience to climate change and the increase in hugely damaging jellyfish blooms. But are jellies really taking over, and if so, what should be done to prevent the jellification of the ocean?
30. JOINING THE DOTS: A revolution in digital mapmaking is underway and the implications for industry, the environment and all of humanity are huge
31. SEEDING THE FUTURE: We are facing a future in which staple foods, from bread to bananas, apples to aubergines could be wiped from the Earth. To rescue these vulnerable varieties, scientists at the Crop Wild Relatives Project are attempting to exploit the genetic diversity that lies hidden and neglected within the uncultivated versions of our most popular food crops
32. What's in a Name? Surrounded by historic maps, aged tomes and a thousand dictionaries, the four employees of the PCGN advise the British government on geographical names. From the Burma/Myanmar debate to the names of rocks far out in contested waters, they keep constantly up to date with the world's ever-changing toponymic climate, just as they have for the last 100 years
33. CONTROL
34. ‘Why do people go to these places, these places that are not for them?’
35. WELCOME
36. Shifting sands
37. THE HEARTBEAT OF IRAN
38. Change for good
39. A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species
40. INSIDE QATAR: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
41. Delving deep
42. CROSSED OFF THE MAP
43. Mutual dependence
44. BOOK OF THE MONTH
45. How to conserve
46. Moving forward
47. The fall of the great wall
48. BEING A HUMAN: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness
49. Life Along the Russia-China border
50. The complexity of life
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