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Mohammad Masoud Azimi In Ontario, the Ripley Wind power project ran into ethical and social confrontation with local communities Inspired by the United Nations […]
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Sarika Panda Bhatt, Chandramuli Shukla, Amit Bhatt, With an aim to encourage non-motorised transport, a new initiative has made available some 500 bicycles from 50 stations […]
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G20 countries have stepped up green finance, but their investment in fossil fuels remains so high that the “well below 2 degree” warming limits […]
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Max Finlayson, Lee Baumgartner and Peter Gell After a long and contentious public debate, in 2012 Australia embarked on a significant and expensive water recovery program to […]
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A leader of a tribe in India, which made headlines around the world when it won a David and Goliath battle against a British […]
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Cuba so drastically reformed its food system that it is best described as a revolution of organic urban agriculture. In the discourse of urban […]
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A win would potentially mean the New Zealand government will be forced to go back to the drawing board and come up with more […]
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A new undercover investigation by Global Witness shows how diamond smugglers are making use of social media platforms as they seek to get diamonds […]
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Seama Mowri In urban slums of Dhaka, a research team encountered several stories of manipulative suicide threats and evidence of mental angst among both […]
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Michelle Andrews An influential group of experts in preventive care affirmed that children age 6 and older should be screened for obesity and referred […]
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Dyna Rochmyaningsih Expanding aquaculture in South-East Asia over the last two decades has been the main driver of mangrove loss in the world, says […]
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Joydeep Gupta A new study looks at five major impacts of climate change, the sectors and the people most vulnerable. Almost 750 million people in South […]
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Erik Vance Once seen as too remote to harm, the deep sea is facing new pressures from mining, pollution, overfishing and more. Imagine sinking […]
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M Zakir Hossain Khan and Sifat E Rabb Clean energy will ensure the achievement of SDG 3 that has emphasised on ensuring healthy lives and promote well-being […]
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Linda Nordling The new leader was backed by the global South. Can he get the world’s premier health body into shape? Last week the […]
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People in Tamenglong resolved to defend their land and resources from any exploitation and plunder by oil companies A community consultation on “Protection of […]
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Samhita Barooah Knowledge of technology is also a privilege of patriarchy. There are very few producers of technology who are women and also almost […]
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Susanne Götze and Christian Mihatsch While diplomats in Bonn work on the operating manual for the Paris Agreement, Washington ponders withdrawing from climate action Climate negotiations […]
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Drained and burnt peatland is responsible for 5 per cent of anthropogenic carbon emissions Indonesia, the global peatland restoration leader, will reduce up to […]
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Mariola Acosta Francés, Edidah Lubega Ampaire & Laurence Jassogne A recent study by the World Bank concluded that closing the gender gap in agriculture would increase […]
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Beth Walker In his new book, John Mathews argues that the two powers are destroying the fossil fuel status quo China has moved away from dependence on fossil fuels […]
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Know your birds: This is a bird that feeds on insects and which breeds in tropical Asia, from the Indian Subcontinent eastwards to Southeast […]
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Jindra Cekan Large parts of international aid system remain broken. We design too many projects outside of the countries themselves. We have fixed funding […]
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Dhruba Dasgupta A Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action program implemented independently through a health, education and employment center has transformed Nandangram village in […]
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