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To save Europe’s rivers, it’s back to basics

[ad_1] If you’re a river swimmer in the UK, you learn to check for sewage overflow warnings. Last year, raw discharge was sent into English rivers

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Apocalypse now? | Eurozine

[ad_1] Horror. A word that I’ve been thinking about more and more. And the face of Colonel Kurtz who wasn’t real. He was a protagonist

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Istanbul as palimpsest | Eurozine

[ad_1] In an issue of Ord&Bild exploring Istanbul’s urban heritage, Ülkü Holago revisits Gezi Park – one of the last green areas in the city.

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Dupes of violence | Eurozine

[ad_1] A month after Hamas’s terrorist attacks on 7 October, in which 1400 Israeli civilians were brutally murdered, the world’s worst fears have been confirmed

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Wording of trauma, recording memory

[ad_1] The forced migration of Ukrainians since Russia’s full-scale invasion has turned creative reflection upside down. Numerous artworks, musical compositions, short films, and works of

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Israel’s dead end | Eurozine

[ad_1] The Bible has much to say about the fatal significance of shifting military alliances in the small strip of land between the Mediterranean and

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Desperation for refrigeration | Eurozine

[ad_1] It whirred away for six years, then one day it just froze. The humming stopped and the next 24 hours saw the temperature inside

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Bargain-basement nationalism | Eurozine

[ad_1] On 21 May 2013, the French writer Dominique Venner shot himself in the head in front of the altar at Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.

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The Po Valley: An Italian paradox

[ad_1] Boretto, province of Reggio Emilia, northern Italy. Under the bridge at the entrance to the town, the river is almost invisible. The concrete foundations

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Exploring ageing | Eurozine

[ad_1] We are proud to present the first episode of Eurozine’s new weekly talk show, Standard Time. The inaugural discussion takes stock of societal pressures,