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Climate change

Oil giants’ systematic spills are poisoning Angola’s coast and its communities

By Giorgio Michalopoulos, Stéffie Banatvala

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Agriculture

Despite health risks, the EU remains addicted to pesticides

By Ana Muñoz Padrós - Deutsche Welle (Berlin)

Health

Burned out by caring for animals: The mental-health struggles of Europe’s vets

By Laura López Camacho - El Confidencial (Madrid)

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Agriculture

In Brussels and the French Caribbean, pesticides linger on stubbornly

By Adrian Burtin

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Climate change

How Europe’s biggest wildfires became the new normal

By Janine Louloudi, Kostas Zafeiropoulos - MIIR (Athens)

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Gender issues

Inside the ‘Tinder for sperm’: Having children is now an online marketplace too

By Andrea Muñoz Marín - El Confidencial (Madrid)

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Gender issues

Incels: male loneliness is a social problem, not a consequence of feminism

By Francesca Barca

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Gender issues

Postpartum care in Europe: Which countries provide at-home help for mother and baby?

By Andrea Muñoz Marín

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Environment, climate and science

‘It’s safer than bottled water’: Europeans reconsider the virtues of tap water

By Ana Somavilla - El Confidencial (Madrid)

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Health

Working with a disability – still an uphill battle in Europe

By Constance Decorde

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Gender issues

Sex workers in Europe: Belgium passes groundbreaking legislation, EU remains divided

By Wouter van de Klippe - HesaMag (Brussels)

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Gender issues

For French pioneer healers, female genital mutilation is part of the ‘continuum of sexual violence’

By Francesca Barca