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Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish
The Guardian18 Feb 2025 • ~4200 words

Despite committing to become a "zero waste" nation, Turkey has become a dumping ground for Europe’s plastic waste, with dire consequences for local farmers and the environment. Alexander Clapp reports on how much of the imported plastic is either burned, dumped illegally, or con...

‘Here Lives the Monster’s Brain’: The Man Who Exposed Switzerland’s Dirty Secrets
The Guardian13 Feb 2025 • ~3850 words

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes about how Jean Ziegler has spent the past 60 years exposing how Switzerland enabled global wrongdoing.

Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner chose profits over safety
The Guardian13 Feb 2025 • ~5700 words

The Guardian investigates the safety practices of Match Group, the parent company of popular dating apps like Tinder and Hinge. Despite being aware of numerous reports of sexual assault by users, this piece argues that the company has often prioritized profits over the safety of ...

The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without consent?
The Guardian11 Feb 2025 • ~5600 words

A 1969 experiment in Coventry saw 21 Indian women fed chapatis baked with radioactive isotopes, without their consent. Revisiting the history behind this unsettling study explores broader issues of trust, consent, and medical ethics within vulnerable communities.

‘Woman, life, freedom’: the Syrian feminists who forged a new world in a land of war
The Guardian08 Feb 2025 • ~3650 words

Rojava, an autonomous region in northeastern Syria, has a government with perhaps the most complete gender equality in the world, in a society fractured by conflict and misogyny. Natasha Walter explores how women in this region have forged a movement for rights and empowerment am...

Elon Musk put a chip in this paralysed man’s brain. Now he can move things with his mind. Should we be amazed - or terrified?
The Guardian08 Feb 2025 • ~5550 words

Noland Arbaugh was the first human to receive a brain chip from Elon Musk's Neuralink, allowing him to control computers with his thoughts. His story raises questions not only about the potential of this technology but also about the ethical implications of merging human minds wi...

‘It was very hard to contain the emotions’: on the road with the meteorite hunters
The Guardian04 Feb 2025 • ~3900 words

When a rare meteorite falls, it springs amateur sky-watchers, scientists, and professional meteorite hunters into a treasure hunt. This piece by Helen Gordon adapted from her book focuses on the excitement surrounding the Winchcombe meteorite, and the scientists that employe meth...

‘Crisis communications’: emails show how NFL’s Saints and NBA’s Pelicans helped New Orleans church spin abuse scandal
The Guardian03 Feb 2025 • ~8800 words

A The Guardian investigation reveals extensive and previously undisclosed involvement by high-level executives from the New Orleans Saints and Pelicans, professional sports teams, in managing the public relations fallout of the Catholic clergy abuse scandal.

A Montana town is waging war on its unhoused citizens. One shelter is fighting back
The Guardian27 Jan 2025 • ~3050 words

Kalispell, Montana, has blocked residents from using the bus and parks, but a federal injunction has stopped it from closing a shelter.

‘The nice version of her was manufactured for YouTube’: my mum, the family vlogger who became a child abuser
The Guardian25 Jan 2025 • ~5100 words

Ruby Franke was a social media star who made viral videos about her six children and perfect-seeming life – until she was jailed for child abuse. Now her eldest daughter Shari is telling her side of the story