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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Ryan Baxter |Steve Glew |Alex Healey |Josh Toussaint-Strauss
Salmon is often marketed as the sustainable, healthy and eco-friendly protein choice. But what you may not realise is that most of the salmon you buy is farmed, especially if you live in the UK, because Scottish salmon producers are no longer required to tell you. Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why it is important for consumers to know where their salmon comes from, and examines the gap between the marketing of farmed salmon and the reality for our health, the environmental and animal welfare
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Alex Healey |Ryan Baxter |Steve Glew |Josh Toussaint-Strauss |Ali Assaf
As droughts become more prevalent, corporate control over our drinking water is threatening the health of water sources and the access people have to them.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Alex Healey |Ryan Baxter |Steve Glew |Josh Toussaint-Strauss |Ali Assaf
Efforts at stopping population movement by force often fail to stop people migrating across borders. But for many politicians, that can be a good thing. Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how immigration is being exploited for business, to boost political agendas, and as a weapon of war• ‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss |Alex Healey |Francesca de Bassa |Steve Glew |Ryan Baxter
The pronatalist movement in the US is gathering pace once again, rekindled by Silicon Valley personalities and hard-right conservatives who are becoming increasingly vocal about whether or not women are having enough babies. But it's not just in the US, some governments in other countries have launched marketing campaigns encouraging people to have more children, while others have offered financial incentives.
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May 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss
South Africa's case against Israel over allegations of genocide before the international court of justice has raised a central question of international law: what is genocide and how do you prove it? It is one of three genocide cases being considered by the UN's world court, but since the genocide convention was approved in 1948, only three instances have been legally recognised as genocide.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss
Cruising is booming – 2023 ticket sales have surpassed historic levels and 2024 has seen the launch of the largest cruise ship ever built. But as cruise tourism's popularity has increased, so have the pollution problems it brings. To customers, it may not be evident that any problems exist, since some cruise line companies claim to be becoming more climate-friendly. But the truth can be quite different.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss
Controlling the Arctic has long been an ambition of Soviet and Russian leaders. And it's not hard to see why: the Arctic contains vast deposits of untapped fossil fuels, it is of huge strategic importance militarily and represents an emerging trade route between Asia and the west to rival the Suez canal. But Russia is not the only country with designs on the Arctic. Canada and Denmark have also staked a claim and, in military terms, Nato is bearing down on all sides.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss
Water is one of the most precious resources in Israel and the Palestinian territories. But there is a stark imbalance in how this resource is distributed. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli-owned farms are flourishing, while Palestinians often do not have enough water to drink. And in Gaza, Palestinians are facing deadly levels of water shortage. Josh Toussaint-Strauss examines how Israel took control of the region's water supply and created a deadly scarcity crisis for Palestinians
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Sep 14, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss
4:23 If your tinned tomatoes come from southern Italy, it’s likely that organised crime had a hand in getting them from the farm to the supermarket shelf. The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so cheap?
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Josh Toussaint-Strauss
In 2010, Barcelona’s nine city beaches were topped up with 700,000 cubic metres of sand. Since then, 70% of that sand has disappeared. In the past 20 years the rate of erosion along Spain’s east coast has been accelerating. It is partly to do with storms and rising sea levels but there are also other factors at play. The local authorities are in a bind, trying to balance economic needs and the environment, with no viable solutions to choose from.
