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Image by David Amen, inspired by the favelas in Rio de Janeiro.

Urban life

Cities have many faces

For this edition, we asked ourselves what makes a city liveable. Many of the problems faced by Nairobi – and the ways they are being tackled – are typical of big cities in the Global South. Let’s go and explore.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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Second-hand trade

Reselling imported used couches and sofas in Zimbabwe

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by Audrey Simango
Flooding in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in August 2023.

Global governance

Working together for the human right to water

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by Jörg Döbereiner
Opening ceremony of the biodiversity summit in Kunming.

Multilateral policymaking

Involving local people in order to reach biodiversity goals

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by Jochen Flasbarth
by Jörg Döbereiner
by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Women displaced by drought queue for water at Kaam Jiroon camp in Somalia.

Horn of Africa

The multiple layers of drought

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by Christoph Schneider-Yattara
This spectacled bear recently appeared near a settlement.

Living with nature

Bolivia’s extraordinary biodiversity is under threat

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by Zulma Martínez Vargas
by Katja Dombrowski
At Lake Bosomtwe in Ghana, both the interests of the local communities and those of nature conservation must be taken into account.

Scientific research

Making the most of Lake Bosomtwe

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by Tobias Cremer
by Friederike Major
by Yaw Boakye Agyeman
by Franziska Rottig
Marina Silva at her inauguration in January.

Ecosystems

Hope for Brazil’s forests

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by Thuany Rodrigues
Farmer releases fish into a rice field in Qingtian County, China.

Traditional agriculture

Traditional agricultural ecosystems harbour remarkable biodiversity

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by Min Qingwen
by Guo Xuan
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Norwegian Arctic, where humanity stores a backup of many crops.

Biodiversity

Our coffee is in danger

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by Kira Crome
The main street of a formerly upmarket residential area is under water almost every day.

Flooding

The city of millions that is being flooded every day

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by Rafiqul Islam Montu