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Agenda Making the news this month

8 Killing rhinos to ‘cure’ cancer 11 Boats set sail to free Gaza 12 Nuclear debate intensifies post-Fukushima i/R e u t e r s

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Analysis Special feature: climate deniers 14 Switching off denial – a guide How do you respond to people in climate denial? Danny Chivers offers a step-by-step guide to rebutting the most common arguments against climate change.

22 Climate change – the key facts 23 A spotter’s guide to climate denial

Also in Analysis 24 Fracking the world Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big

Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.

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27 Oblivion in Afghanistan Morwari Zafar hears the stories of addicts hitting rock bottom in a country that supplies 90 per cent of the world’s opium supply.