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Turkey Leads In European Nature Loss

Luxury hotels, power plants, and yacht ports: Turkey’s endless construction boom has turned fields and forests into concrete and asphalt, consuming an area larger than Istanbul’s Anatolian side in only six years.

by Craig Shaw, Cemre Demircioğlu
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Turkey Leads In European Nature Loss

Luxury hotels, power plants, and yacht ports: Turkey’s endless construction boom has turned fields and forests into concrete and asphalt, consuming an area larger than Istanbul’s Anatolian side in only …

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Inside the unprecedented lobbying effort to sway the EU on PFAS “forever chemicals”

As the European Union considers a historic ban on PFAS, it confronts an industry lobbying hard to keep them on the market. Some Turkish companies have also joined the fight.

by Zeynep Şentek, Sarah Pilz, Craig Shaw, Cemre Demircioğlu
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