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Same globalisation, different fears. What British and Croatian students reveal about national identity
Almost everywhere in Europe, the same political story has been playing out. Support for radical right-wing parties has grown, Euroscepticism has hardened, and much of it has been fuelled by anti-globalist sentiment, the sense that global trade and open borders benefit some regions and people while leaving others behind. Brexit…
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Cities are quietly becoming refuges for Britain’s most threatened mammals
Urbanisation is usually cast as a villain in the story of biodiversity loss. Often for a good reason – concrete replaces habitat, roads cut through territories, and noise and light disturb the animals that once lived there. So it may come as a surprise that some of the UK’s most…
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What Balkan pop songs reveal about how a whole region sees itself
If you have never set foot in the Balkans, you have probably still picked up a familiar image of the region. War, feuding neighbours, chaos, and perhaps a certain wild passion. But where does this image come from, and more interestingly, do people from the region believe it about themselves?…
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Cornwall’s housing crisis is shaping how people feel about being Cornish
Every summer, Cornwall’s population nearly doubles. Visitors flock to its coastline, its beaches, its history, and increasingly, to holiday cottages and Airbnbs that were once family homes. For many locals, that influx is not just an inconvenience. It has become tangled up with a decades-old sense of Cornish identity, and…
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Požari u Dalmaciji nisu (samo) priča o klimatskim promjenama
Kad ljeti u Dalmaciji izbije požar, uzrok se najčešće traži u ljudskoj nepažnji i sve izraženijim klimatskim promjenama. No, važan dio odgovora krije se i u samom krajoliku. Obronci na kojima je nekad pasla stoka danas zarastaju u šikaru, dok napuštene poljoprivredne površine obrasta gusto raslinje. Time se mijenja i…
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Why Croatia’s Coast Keeps Catching Fire
Ask a firefighter in Dalmatia why this stretch of Croatia’s coast burns so often, and the obvious answers are arson and a warming climate. But another explanation comes up repeatedly: hillsides that are no longer grazed, small farms whose owners have retired or left, and scrub that has gradually taken…
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Growing Against the Grain in Zagreb’s Urban Gardens
Tucked between Zagreb’s apartment towers, where you might expect a parking lot or an overgrown patch of weeds, are small mazes of fenced-off vegetable plots, with tomatoes and beans growing among them. Some of these gardens have been there since the 1970s. Others sprang up just a few years ago.…
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The Hidden Shrinking of Croatia’s Private Forests
On paper, Croatia’s forests are doing well. National statistics show forest cover growing steadily over the past few decades, good news for a country where forests cover more than 40% of the land. But zoom into one particular county in the north, and a different story appears: forests that are…
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The Last Mowers: How Croatia’s Grasslands Are Slipping Away
Drive through the hills of northern Croatia’s Hrvatsko Zagorje and you’ll see a patchwork landscape of small fields, scattered farmhouses, forested slopes, and open grassy meadows. Some are grazed by livestock, while others are cut for hay to feed the herds through winter. These meadows are part of a much…
