This week, we continue revisiting and updating some of our favorite episodes on The Take.

The year 2021 was the deadliest year to be a Palestinian child since 2014. As many as 86 children were killed, and Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) documented each of them. One of them was Obaida Jawabra. This week, we tell Obaida’s story, one of our most memorable on The Take, and hear about why it is getting harder for DCIP to do their job.

In this episode:

• Farah Bayadsi, Human Rights Attorney (@DCIPalestine)
• Ayed Abu Qtaish, Accountability programme director for Defense for Children International
• Yuval Abraham, Journalist at 972 Magazine (@yuval_abraham)

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In August, the UN climate panel issued a “code red for humanity.” The latest IPCC report warned of a catastrophic planetary future if global emissions don’t reach net-zero within the next few decades. But in Bangladesh, there’s no code red needed. The country’s residents have been watching the seas rise and the glaciers melt, right in front of their eyes. And they have lessons — and warnings — for the rest of the world.

In this episode:

• Saleemul Huq (@SaleemulHuq), director of the International Center for Climate Change and Development

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Where the global space race was once decided by the wealth of nations, now its future is increasingly determined by ultra-wealthy individuals worth more than many countries. Their pursuit of space could put new resources in reach, and it is reshaping the laws of outer space – at least, the ones made by humans.

In this episode: 

• Lucianne Walkowicz (@RocketToLulu), an astronomer at the Adler Planetarium and co-founder of Just Space Alliance (@JustSpaceOrg)
• Lisa Ruth Rand (@orbital_decay), assistant Professor at the California Institute of Technology

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Every August, in a small town called San Cibrao, in the northern region of Galicia, Spain, people gather to celebrate an annual festival: A Maruxaina. Finding a toilet during the event, which brings together thousands of people, can be challenging – forcing many to relieve themselves in discreet alleys instead. But in 2019, a group of women was secretly recorded, with the videos ending up on pornography websites. These women are now seeking justice.

In this episode: 

• Sonia Visozo, El País’ correspondent in Galicia
• Paloma Maseda and Alba Álvarez, victims

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Americans are wasting about $408bn in food every year, but the biggest consequence of food waste is not financial. Pollution from methane gas generated at landfills accounts for about 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Today, we explore food waste — how to avoid it, and what steps local and national governments in the United States are taking to solve the problem.

In this episode: 

• Madeline Keating, City Strategist, Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program at NRDC (@NRDC)
• Kristyn Oldendorf, Chief of the Office of Waste Diversion for the Department of Public Works, Baltimore (@BaltimoreDPW)
• Marvin Hayes, Youth Program Manager, Baltimore Compost Collective (@bmorecompost)

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Where did humans go wrong? It might feel like the question of our species as another year passes into history. But ‘The Dawn of Everything,’ by David Wengrow and David Graeber, says we’re asking the wrong questions. The bestselling book is a blitz on Big History, a loaded subject: it’s a time period that’s both 300,000 years long and 99% before the invention of writing. But the book upends everything we think we know about the past, the present, and maybe even the future.

In this episode: 

• David Wengrow (@davidwengrow), co-author of ‘The Dawn of Everything’

If you haven't listened to our conversation with co-author David Graeber about essential work in the age of the pandemic, check it out: In a pandemic, are most jobs bull****?

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Woolly mammoths went extinct several thousand years ago. But if a new company gets its way, something like the woolly mammoth could walk the Earth again within the decade. Colossal Biosciences, a new biotechnology company, announced in September that it had raised $15m to genetically modify an Asian elephant so that it has the cold-tolerant traits of a woolly mammoth. Their plan has been received with a mix of scepticism, excitement and controversy.

In this episode: 

• Ben Lamm (@federallamm), co-founder and CEO of Colossal (@ItIsColossal)
• Dr. Tori Herridge (@ToriHerridge), evolutionary biologist at the London Natural History Museum (@NHM_London)
• Dr. Joe Bennett (@Joe_Ecology), professor at Carleton University

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A buildup of troops on the border of Ukraine and Russia is worrying the world. The fear is war, but parts of Ukraine are already caught in the crossfire. Pro-Russia separatists are battling Ukrainian soldiers and have been for almost eight years. We go to Donbas, Eastern Ukraine with Al Jazeera correspondent, Charles Stratford to hear what people there are living through now and their thoughts on what may happen in the days ahead.

In this episode: 

• Charles Stratford (@stratfordch), Al Jazeera correspondent covering Eastern Ukraine
• Mansur Mirovalev (@mirovalev), a freelance correspondent based in Kyiv, Ukraine

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Unmarked graves, lost family members, and a reckoning long overdue – it’s a story familiar to Indigenous peoples in both Canada and the United States, where residential schools for native children ripped apart tribal nations. The US boarding school system was even more extensive than Canada’s, but much less is known about it, and its history is often surrounded by a culture of silence. So what will it take for a reckoning in the US?

In this episode: 

• Kavitha Chekuru (@KaviChek), producer for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines (@AJFaultLines)
• Denise Lajimodiere (@DLajimodiere), author and academic 
• Eleanor Hadden, descendant of boarding school students

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Mehray Mezensof's husband is one of an estimated million Uighurs being detained in China.  Several countries accuse China of committing crimes against humanity, including genocide, and on December 9, a people's tribunal in the UK ruled that to be true.

In this episode:

• Mehray Mezensof (@Mehray_T), wife of a detained Uighur man
• Sir Geoffrey Nice, chairman of the Uyghur Tribunal (@TribunalUyghur)

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