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‘What is our future?’: the Nauru detention centre was empty. Now 100 asylum seekers are held there ( www.theguardian.com )

“We must not forget that people have the legal right to seek safety and asylum. It is beyond comprehension the Albanese government is continuing Australia’s cruel legacy of banishing people offshore simply because they sought safety by sea, and to prevent political fallout from the opposition.”...

The Moor review – Yorkshire-set missing-kids chiller is formidable folk horror debut ( www.theguardian.com )

Looking for a group of long-missing children on a patch of moorland, podcaster Claire (Sophia La Porta) thinks she has defined her search area. But when she lays down her map in front of the police chief who once led the case, he reaches for a box and arrays five more Ordnance Surveys around it. His rejoinder – “That’s the...

‘They’re not like puppy dogs. They should be respected’: how to swim with sharks in British waters ( www.theguardian.com )

We have only been waiting in the grey Atlantic swell a few moments when the first flash of metallic blue appears in the water. A blue shark, a few miles from the coast of Penzance in Cornwall, emerges from the depths. It is time to get in the water – but part of my brain rebels....

Rare cancers, full-body rashes, death: did fracking make their kids sick? ( www.theguardian.com )

Fracking entails cracking layers of earth with pressurized, chemical-laden liquid to access stores of oil and gas thousands of feet underground. Many of the chemicals used in that liquid, like benzene and formaldehyde, are carcinogenic, and the extraction itself can stir up radium and other heavy metals in the shale’s...

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