Red tape on a blue planet

All our laws and rules to protect coral reefs now stand in the way of radical action to save them from heat death

Irus Braverman

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essay / Thinkers and theories

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video / Gender and identity

The patient labour of building ties in a city far from home

Directed by Eli Jean Tahchi

Their struggle is deeply personal yet universally human. We all live in bodies that will one day fail us, searching for answers that may never come

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Siddhant Ritwick, researcher in societal polarisation at Aalto University and Tomi Koljonen, lecturer in organisation theory at the University of Liverpool

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Should we alter coral reefs to save them from the heat?