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As salmon farming booms, Icelanders size up an existential threat

Seyðisfjörður — The industry has seen huge growth in recent years, with millions of fish being farmed in the Atlantic Ocean. But who benefits from its commercial success, and what does it mean for the ocean? Phil Young ventures to the remote country to find out.

  • Outsiders Project
  • Phil Young

Activists hack London billboards to call out big tech harm

Tax Big Tech: With UK youth mental health services under strain, guerrilla billboards across the capital accuse social media companies of profiting from a growing crisis.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

In photos: The boys of the Bibby Stockholm

Bibby Boys — A new exhibition by Theo McInnes and Thomas Ralph documents the men who lived on the three-story barge in Dorset, giving them the chance to control their own narrative. 

  • Activism
  • Thomas Ralph

‘We’re going to stop you’: House Against Hate tap Ben UFO, Greentea Peng and Shygirl for anti-far right protest

R3 Soundsystem — It takes place on March 28 in London’s Trafalgar Square, with a huge line-up of DJs, artists and crews named on the line-up.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

In photos: Lebanon’s women against a backdrop of war

Where Do I Go? لوين روح — As war breaks out in the Middle East once again, we spotlight Rania Matar’s powerful new photobook, which empowers women of her home country through portraiture.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

Riding out with Mac & Matteo

Warm shoulder — Cycling around London with his cat on his shoulder, balaclava-donning youth worker Mac is challenging society’s perceptions of people who look and dress like him. Molly Lipson chats to him about trauma, fatherhood and using his platform as a feline influencer for good.

  • Activism
  • Molly Lipson

Inside Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

Flare pollution — Wayan Barre began photographing life in the 85-mile petrochemical industry corridor after moving to New Orleans. He found defiant activists, health problems and impoverishment.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Proscription of Palestine Action as terrorist organisation ruled unlawful by High Court

Oppose genocide — The group has called it a “monumental victory”, while the UK government has said that it will appeal the ruling.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop

New documentary spotlights UK Right to Roam movement

OUR LAND — Directed by Orban Wallace, it asks questions about the meaning of land ownership, environmental protection and access to nature.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

New Shepard Fairey print commemorates killed Palestinian child Hind Rajab

Remember — It comes two years after the five-year-old was killed by the IDF as she and her family were attempting to flee Gaza City, with proceeds going to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

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