Today's quick reads

Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.

Fishing boats damaged by Hurricane Beryl sit upended in Bridgetown, Barbados on 1 July 2024. The earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane on record, its arrival showed the urgency of the climate crisis.Photo: Ricardo Mazalan/Associated Press/Alamy

Temperature Check

Stop digging. Words – Danny Chivers.

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NI 551 - Election year - September, 2024
551 - September, 2024
What's in a name

What's in a name

Update from Uganda by Liam Taylor.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
527 - September, 2020
Photo: Jon Cartwright

So much for free speech...

477 - November, 2014
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It's a complicated issue, admits Kate Smurthwaite.

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