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Agenda Making the news this month 8 We need to bust the pendulum,
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Women’s rights in Mexico
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F e r n a n d o not see how it swings! Our new columnist Mark Engler considers the impact of the US midterm elections.
10 Koreans brace themselves for the G20 travelling roadshow Protestors are planning a memorable welcome for the men (and women) in suits.
13 Threatened town looks for alternatives The struggle to save a picturesque
Romanian village from mining misery.
Analysis Special feature: Humans vs. Nature 15 The need for reconnection We are agents of great change, says Dinyar Godrej, but can we also change direction?
16 A sea returns to life, a sea slowly dies Paul Lauener’s stirring report from the Aral Sea, scene of both environmental miracle and disaster.
20 That petrol emotion Adam Ma’anit peers beyond the smoke and mirrors at BP’s
‘clean up’ of the Gulf of Mexico.
23 Stopping the juggernaut Put environmental villains in the dock, says campaigner
Polly Higgins.
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Europe against GM crops
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Also in Analysis 25 Fungus to die for Murder in the high Himalayas over a natural aphrodisiac. Jamie James reports.
32 Country profile: Georgia 44 A day in the life – with interest Becky Palmstrom discovers how Burma’s urban poor survive in a world without banks.