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Rural people protesting against their village being submerged because of Omkreswahr dam on the Narmada river in 2012.

Infrastructure projects

Paying the price for development

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by Korinna Horta
Growth in itself will not solve urban infrastructure problems: small shops on the outskirts of Nairobi.

Global trends

In urgent need of development

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by Belay Begashaw
On 7 June, protesters in Bristol pulled down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston and later threw it into the harbour.

Development discourse

Unsustainable western exceptionalism

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by Ndongo Samba Sylla
Ndongo Samba Sylla

Fire hazards

Up in flames

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by Derrick Silimina
China’s government promises to accelerate transition to renewables: worker in a coal mine in Inner Mongolia.

Infrastructure

Build back better

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by Katie Cashman
The extinct dodo is the national animal of Mauritius and a symbol of a lost paradise.

Summer Special

The shattered soul of Mauritius

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by Katja Dombrowski
Threatened environment: eroding shoreline of a Sundarban island in the Ganges Delta.

Summer Special

Kolkata, New York, Venice

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by Hans Dembowski
Education matters: a high-school student doing homework in rural Burkina Faso.

UNDP

“Governance is fundamental”

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by Achim Steiner
by Hans Dembowski
Fumes make cooking a health hazard for rural women – not only in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Indoor air pollution

Clearing the air

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by Katharina Michaelowa
Katharina Michaelowa
by Martina Zahno
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