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'It can't be sustainable': The hidden costs of demolishing council housing estates
![Image of Central Hill housing estate in Lambeth.](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_5761-scaled-e1652456682641.jpeg?w=768)
'It can't be sustainable': The hidden costs of demolishing council housing estates
Play it again: The remarkable revival of cassettes
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Play it again: The remarkable revival of cassettes
'Politics needs to be real': Why more independent candidates are standing in this year's local elections
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'Politics needs to be real': Why more independent candidates are standing in this year's local elections
Sophie Marceau: 'I hope love always stays a mystery'
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Sophie Marceau: 'I hope love always stays a mystery'
The story of Chervona Ruta – Ukraine's pop song of resistance
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The story of Chervona Ruta – Ukraine's pop song of resistance
The guerrilla gardeners claiming back space for nature
![Ellen Miles, a guerrilla gardener planting in her neighbourhood.](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1509_Gardeners_E-Miles-Guerrilla-Gardening-Hackney-Wick.jpg?w=768)
The guerrilla gardeners claiming back space for nature
Environmental defenders, not victims: What we can learn from the San people of Southern Africa
![Environmental activist Gakemotho Satau](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Gakemotho-Satau.jpg?w=768)
Environmental defenders, not victims: What we can learn from the San people of Southern Africa
The Brazilian women on the front line of the climate change fight
![Earth Day - Maria Alaídes Alves de Souza is the coordinator of the Babaçu Coconut Breakers Movement](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Maria-Alaides-Alves-de-Sousa-foto-MIQCB-Ingrid-Barros.jpg?w=768)
The Brazilian women on the front line of the climate change fight
Britain is facing an invisible extinction of biodiversity
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Britain is facing an invisible extinction of biodiversity
Fifty years after the Gaia hypothesis was first published, understanding it is more vital than ever
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Fifty years after the Gaia hypothesis was first published, understanding it is more vital than ever
Alex Winter: 'Keanu and I never thought Bill & Ted was going to be a big movie'
![Alex Winter](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1505_YS_2-scaled.jpg?w=768)
Alex Winter: 'Keanu and I never thought Bill & Ted was going to be a big movie'
'I locked my flat in tears': The diary of one Ukrainian refugee's two-week journey to the UK
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'I locked my flat in tears': The diary of one Ukrainian refugee's two-week journey to the UK
Mark Rylance: 'There's a loss of identity in England – who are we other than post-imperial bastards?'
![Mark Rylance](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1503_MarkRylance1.jpg?w=768)
Mark Rylance: 'There's a loss of identity in England – who are we other than post-imperial bastards?'
Transnistria: The country that doesn't exist but could shape the future of Russia and Europe
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Transnistria: The country that doesn't exist but could shape the future of Russia and Europe
'My mum can’t take it much longer’: Ukrainians turned away as UK visa centres fail to cope with demand
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'My mum can’t take it much longer’: Ukrainians turned away as UK visa centres fail to cope with demand
Has Coventry's year as UK City of Culture shaken off its Ghost Town past?
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Has Coventry's year as UK City of Culture shaken off its Ghost Town past?
'We could be creating flood risk ghettos': How flooding hits the UK's poorest hardest
![Willow Bank Caravan Park, Bentley, with flood water.](https://www.bigissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/willow-bank-flooded.jpg?w=678)