environment and community Archives

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Chris Lockwood

We can’t lose women’s football to climate change, says England star Chris Lockwood

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Kids Cover Competition

‘A bright and bold mosaic of creatures’: Meet the winner of Big Issue’s Kids Cover Competition 2025

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Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Earth Day 2025

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Record Store Day

Would you buy a record sleeve without the vinyl inside? It’s one way to reduce plastic

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Melissa Gilpin

Young LGBTQ+ people are made homeless because of who they are – but official stats don’t show it

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Haider Yaqub

I’m an aid worker in Myanmar. The sight of bodies being pulled from rubble will stay with me forever

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Clean energy

Fossil fuel industries ‘worried’ after clean energy powered 40% of world’s electricity needs in 2024

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Israel

How adapting controversial play Seven Jewish Children into a film expanded my Jewish identity

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Air pollution

Statue of girl killed by air pollution should be reminder of dangers of toxic air, says mother

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Sam Nadel

Just Stop Oil may be reviled – but their tactics reshaped the climate movement

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Community

‘Neighbours are more trusted than government’: When crisis hits, communities are saving themselves

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Modern slavery

I was trafficked and forced to work 23 hours a day. How was I meant to return to normality?

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Letter To My Younger Self

Football legend David James: ‘I had difficult moments at every club, not just Liverpool’

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Daniel Reast & Sam Pooke

London’s Black Cabs are iconic. But their future is in jeopardy

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Five years since the pandemic

‘You don’t have to be a celebrity to make an impact’: Big Issue’s Covid heroes, five years on

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Community energy

Communities that build solar panels and wind farms should get cheaper bills, says Labour minister

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Immigration

Families torn apart for not earning enough under ‘unfair’ visa rules: ‘I can’t take care of my husband’

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10Foot Takeover

The remarkable story of Fare Dodgers’ Liberation Front and their fight for free public transport

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