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Context is the Foundation’s award-winning media platform, providing news and analysis around three of the most significant and interconnected issues of our time: climate change, the effects of technology on society, and socio-economic inequality. Our human-centered journalism is delivered across a range of formats — from in-depth stories to videos and podcasts to newsletters.
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Gold prices and poverty fuel illegal mining in Peru's Amazon
The Nanay River meanders through Peru’s Amazon jungle supplying water to Iquitos city’s half a million inhabitants. But there are growing concerns about the quality of this…
Mpox preys on people already sapped by war in DR Congo, MSF says
In packed camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo, people displaced by war have little to eat, nowhere to wash and little privacy, leaving them critically
How a protected migrant program lets Haitians work in the U.S.
Haitian immigrants living in the Ohio city of Springfield have found themselves at the center of the heated debate around immigration, one of the key issues ahead of the Nov. 5 U.S….
Unprotected by laws, US workers pay the cost of record summer heat
Filiberto Lares spends his days in a truck with no air conditioning restocking airplanes with food and drinks at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, where temperatures inside…
Antimicrobial resistance is a huge threat – new deal offers hope
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the director-general of the World Health Organization. AMR threatens to unwind a century of medical progress, and could return us to the…