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Bringing our soil back to life with the latest in earth science

26 July 2017

David Montgomery's Growing a Revolution says farming can save the soil and even address climate change – can his optimism be justified?
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Learning to be fair: Lessons from the deep past

26 July 2017

While Thomas Piketty's bestseller fuelled a major rethink on economics and inequality, creating change is tough – and may depend on reimagining hunter-gatherer societies

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