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We piece together their final hours on a dinghy from France - and find out who they were.
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Visual Stories Editor @FinancialTimes. Formerly @bbcnews. Yorkshire native. Now then. Now at bsky.app/profile/upyorkshire.bsky.social
Lucy Rodgers’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridMiami building collapse: What happened, and how quickly?
BBC
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Maps, images and graphics of what we know about a 12-storey residential building's collapse north of Miami.
Covid-19: Vaccines alone will not stop Covid spreading - here's why
BBC
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Many of us are hoping vaccines against coronavirus will enable us to reclaim our old lives. But scientists say jabs alone will not currently be enough to stop the virus spreading.
Covid-19: Will a vaccine give us our old lives back?
BBC
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How vaccines work and why they need to reach a huge number of people in order to see an end to our socially distanced lives.
Covid-19: How do pandemics end?
BBC
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Find out how previous pandemics came to an end, giving us clues as to how our future may unfold.
Locusts: A close-up look at the swarms devouring the world's crops
BBC
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Huge swarms of desert locusts are wreaking havoc in parts of East Africa, Asia and the Middle East. See a locust or swarm of locusts in your room in AR.
How a single locust becomes a plague
BBC
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Vast swarms of desert locusts are tearing through the Horn of Africa and south Asia, devouring crops and threatening food supplies and livelihoods. How did it get so bad?
The massive CO2 emitter you may not know about
BBC
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Concrete is the most widely used man-made material in existence. It is second only to water as the most-consumed resource on the planet. But, while cement - the key ingredient in concrete - has shaped much of our built environment, it also has a massive carbon footprint.
The girl whose home could slip away
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Kamroo, who had already lost her father to illness, was among those forced to flee Myanmar. "We left because the Burmese soldiers attacked us," she says. "They burned our village and killed my mother."
The girl with the strawberry ring
BBC
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Who is she? And why does she refuse to take off her toy plastic ring?
What's left of Mosul?
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The brutal fight to rid Mosul of so-called Islamic State has left the northern Iraqi city in ruins, thousands dead and survivors scattered far and wide. Just how much devastation was caused by the battle between Iraq’s forces - backed by US-led air strikes - and the militant group, and what will happen now?
The secret trade in baby chimps
BBC
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A secret network of wildlife traffickers selling baby chimpanzees has been exposed by a year-long BBC News investigation.