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Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth

Without plankton, the modern ocean ecosystem – the very idea of the ocean as we understand it – would collapse. Earth would have no complex life of any kind. By Ferris Jabr. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  10 years of the long read: Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? (20…

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  Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned a…

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  The shapeshifter: who is the real Giorgia Meloni?

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  10 years of the long read: Farewell to America (2015)

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  The cocaine kingpin’s wildest legacy: what can be done with Pablo Escobar’…

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  ‘Like a cheese grater raking across my nipple’: why I kept trying to breas…

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  10 years of the long read: Is this the end of Britishness? (2014)

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  Special Edition: 10 years of the Guardian Long Read

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  No god in the machine: the pitfalls of AI worship

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  From the archive: The unravelling of a conspiracy: were the 16 charged wit…

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  On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of t…

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  A Chinese-born writer’s quest to understand the Vikings, Normans and life …

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  From the archive: The invention of whiteness: the long history of a danger…

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  Ukraine’s death-defying art rescuers

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  As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed …