A lack of urban planning is often responsible for conflict between people and industrial sites which, with their heavy load of unpleasant smells awakening energy reactions, the affected gain environmental awareness.“ Roberto Hernández Activities such as cattle farming, landfills and industrial operations do not always coexist peacefully within […]
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Brian Fisher: “In one year GPs will be a complicated disaster
The agreements of the National Health Service (NHS) have been completely rewritten. As such, it is a great private experiment and we do not know how it will end. If the Conservatives remain in power after 2015, the NHS will be history. Francisco Castañón Public Health officials have warned […]
Indigenous people, the ones that should decide their future
Venezuela, Guatemala, Colombia and Peru have some of the people most affected by the industries that extract natural resources in Latin America. On the continent there are 43 million natives made up of over 500 different peoples, supposedly 7.6% of the total population of the region. . Benjamin Serra . […]
The core of the Big Apple: The soulful heart of the big City
When we think of New York, we are immediately enveloped in a discourse of skyscrapers, bright lights and cosmopolitans. It’s the city that never sleeps, electricity pumping through its veins. But is there something that lies beneath all the expense, gluttony, and excess? Georgina Campbell When most people […]
Burkas to bikinis
Roaming around the National Mosque in a burka in Kuala Lumpur I began to feel a similar sensation to what I had just felt on the beach in Langkawi Island in the Andaman Sea a few days earlier. Faryal Iqbal It was a liberating feeling that I felt […]