Stories
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Lovely grub: are insects the future of food?
Emily Anthes braves locusts, beetles, mealworms and more as she asks whether eating insects is the answer to feeding ever more humans and livestock.
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Six-legged snacks
Fancy cooking up your own bug dishes?
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Farming insects
Is eating insects more humane than eating meat?
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Boosting wild insect populations
How can we encourage more insects in the wild?
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Insects in the City: Can cities save our bees?
Away from intensive agriculture and sheltered from the effects of climate change, our cities may be the refuges that bees and other pollinating insects need to survive. Barry J Gibb explores.
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Meet the bees (and other pollinators)
Photographs of some of the beautiful insects that pollinate our plants.
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Can India’s urban future be a healthy one?
Ill-health is the price rural Indians have to pay for seeking a better life in the city. Twenty-nine villages near Hyderabad are helping to explain why, Michael Regnier discovers.
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Life and health in Delhi’s slums
A city slum can be many things – a community, a poverty trap, a potential escape route for the next generation.
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Three generations of migration and health
Shah Ebrahim was born in England, his father in South Africa, and his grandfather in India.
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Nagamani’s story
Moving from a small village to a bustling town had pros and cons for housewife Nagamani.
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One virus, four lives: the reality of being HIV positive