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Inside Saudi Arabia’s plan to tame the desert and turn its capital into a cool green oasis
Riyadh aims to reduce the overall average temperature by two degrees celsius with four environmental ‘megaprojects’
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Tens of thousands suffer in Saudi detention centres despite promise of reform
Exclusive: Four years after a Telegraph investigation uncovered widespread abuses, new footage suggests nothing has changed
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Water world: Something is wrong with the most basic planetary system of all
Rising global temperatures have warped the earth’s natural cycles, causing once easily predictable events to become increasingly erratic
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Breaking the hunger cycle in the mountains of northern Pakistan
Tackling intergenerational stunting and undernutrition requires targeted interventions
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‘The smog has conquered us’: Children bear the brunt of Pakistan’s pollution crisis
Swathes of the country have been enveloped in toxic air for weeks – for the most vulnerable, exposure could lead to lifelong complications
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Cutting pollution worldwide could add two years to average person’s life, says study
Fine particulate matter – or PM2.5 – remains the ‘world’s greatest external risk to human health’, according to the Air Quality Life Index
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Why Afghans are being slowly poisoned by their evening meal
Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest rates of lead exposure and a mounting body of evidence suggests cookware could be to blame
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Pictured: Indonesia’s net zero nickel boom fuels destruction of rainforests and coral reefs
Rainforest and coastal communities are being destroyed in the race to transition away from fossil fuels
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Creating a ‘smoke-free generation’ is a unique chance to lead the world in tackling tobacco
The strategy has the potential to prevent death and disease for generations to come – MPs should grasp this opportunity with both hands
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Obesity set to impact one in five adults in Africa by late 2023, WHO warns
Lifestyle and diets are shifting dramatically across the continent, raising concerns of a 'ticking time bomb' of obesity
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Britain needs more than willpower to shake off addictions to fags, booze, junk food and ‘chillaxing’
Should the government ban, regulate and red-tape the country into good health?
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Investing $1 per person could save 7 million lives from heart disease, cancer and diabetes
Countries must prioritise funding for non-communicable diseases – which cause seven out of 10 deaths worldwide each year – WHO says
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Hunger threatens to undo decades of global development, Bill Gates warns
Is the global health boom over? Decades of progress at a cross roads as malnutrition rages
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How Nepal turned the tide on ‘pesticide poisoning’
‘Plant medicines’ were implicated in roughly a third of the country’s suicides. A ban on the most hazardous substances appears to be working
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‘The tiger had my husband by his throat – I fought to save him with a stick’
As tiger numbers triple in Nepal thanks to conservation, rangers now patrol on elephant-back to stop the man-eaters attacking humans
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‘Our former partners abducted our children and Brexit has stopped us getting them back’
Fathers of children unlawfully taken from the UK to Poland face a wall of silence and spiralling legal costs
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Climate change is already forcing millions of people to migrate – and it will only get worse
Scientists also say that climate-driven human migration greatly increases the risk of new epidemics
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‘My land is a river now’: South Sudan’s glimpse into an apocalyptic future
Anneliese Dodds visits makeshift island home to 140,000 at heart of Labour's new aid policy
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Cutting pollution worldwide could add two years to average person’s life, says study
Fine particulate matter – or PM2.5 – remains the ‘world’s greatest external risk to human health’, according to the Air Quality Life Index
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Why Afghans are being slowly poisoned by their evening meal
Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest rates of lead exposure and a mounting body of evidence suggests cookware could be to blame
