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Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Food and nutrition

Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2025
Changemakers 2025

Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2025

How a shocking DNA test revealed my family's links to a celebrity chef and slavery in Jamaica
Books

How a shocking DNA test revealed my family's links to a celebrity chef and slavery in Jamaica

The mouldiest places in Britain to live, revealed
The city of Plymouth
Damp and mould

The mouldiest places in Britain to live, revealed

Growth and jobs or a net zero nightmare? Why there's so much opposition to Heathrow's third runway
Heathrow Airport

Growth and jobs or a net zero nightmare? Why there's so much opposition to Heathrow's third runway

'The right is on the rise': UK's democracy is too fragile to be 'complacent' about Trump, experts say
Donald Trump
Donald Trump

'The right is on the rise': UK's democracy is too fragile to be 'complacent' about Trump, experts say

Letters: We should embrace the decline in population in the most polluting countries
Letters

Letters: We should embrace the decline in population in the most polluting countries

What impact will Trump's presidency actually have on the UK? Here's everything you need to know
Donald Trump

What impact will Trump's presidency actually have on the UK? Here's everything you need to know

We live in what feels like dark and anxious times – but there's still lots we can learn from the stars
Space

We live in what feels like dark and anxious times – but there's still lots we can learn from the stars

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain
Two young children wearing beavers uniforms emerge from a hedge
Rewilding

These 11 pioneering rewilding projects are helping bring nature back in Britain

Community-led housing is not just for city dwellers – it can boost overlooked rural areas too
Tom Bennett

Community-led housing is not just for city dwellers – it can boost overlooked rural areas too

The 1.5C global warming target is a 'delusion', warns climate scientist who fled Los Angeles
Global heating

The 1.5C global warming target is a 'delusion', warns climate scientist who fled Los Angeles

Edinburgh Fringe should be a place for artists to grow – but working class people are priced out
Robin Ince

Edinburgh Fringe should be a place for artists to grow – but working class people are priced out

Calling MPs of all stripes: Our planet is counting on your vote on the Climate and Nature Bill
Roz Savage MP

Calling MPs of all stripes: Our planet is counting on your vote on the Climate and Nature Bill

'I'm scared – but I'm ready to go': Why GPs are willing to go to prison to protest the climate crisis
Dr Patrick Hart is a GP jailed for climate crisis protests
Dr RIta Issa

'I'm scared – but I'm ready to go': Why GPs are willing to go to prison to protest the climate crisis

Starmer wants to 'mainline' AI into the UK's 'veins'. Here are the opportunities – and the risks
Artificial Intelligence

Starmer wants to 'mainline' AI into the UK's 'veins'. Here are the opportunities – and the risks

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Cruise ships pump out 10 times the CO2 per passenger as flying. Can they turn the tide?
Sustainable travel

Cruise ships pump out 10 times the CO2 per passenger as flying. Can they turn the tide?

I'm a disabled artist and activist. I create art where everyone is valued – including nature
Greta, a white woman and wheelchair user, sits in the middle of a green forest on location during filming for A World Beneath Us. It is Bumpy, cool, warm, trees, plants, insects, staggering, quiet, light, dark (shade), tan, green, brown.
Greta Chambers-McMillan

I'm a disabled artist and activist. I create art where everyone is valued – including nature

'Dictators die, the people live on': What Syria's revolution means for those who fled Assad's regime
Syria

'Dictators die, the people live on': What Syria's revolution means for those who fled Assad's regime

I’m paying £5,000 a year on energy bills – and was left without heating and hot water as snow fell
Two Peckham residents
ENERGY BILLS

I’m paying £5,000 a year on energy bills – and was left without heating and hot water as snow fell

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