‘You can’t even wash your hands’: is a global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River

‘You can’t even wash your hands’: is a global industrial hub responsible for the destruction of Mexico’s Atoyac River?

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The Environment Agency say it is investigationg the source of the discolouration.

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World - The Guardian - October 17

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Will Mexico’s plan to constitutionally ban vapes play into the hands of cartels?

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The decline in strength and increase in injuries is little recognized and far too infrequently discussed.

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‘You can’t shoot climate change’: Richard Seymour on how far right exploits environmental crisis

In his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, the Marxist thinker explores how extremist movements around the world seek to blame fictional enemies for real disasters. Like a lot of people, Richard ...

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A new Netflix documentary tells a sinister tale of a decade-long online romance scam, and the devastation that followed.

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