Dispatches from the wettest place on earth
Every drop of rain water trickling down Tyllod Khongwir's rusty tin roof and into her house is collected—even though she lives in one of the wettest places on earth.
Every drop of rain water trickling down Tyllod Khongwir's rusty tin roof and into her house is collected—even though she lives in one of the wettest places on earth.
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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When volunteer Sarah Price found a baby kangaroo frightened but miraculously alive in the pouch of its dying mother surrounded by the embers of Australia's bushfires, it seemed fitting to name him Chance.
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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Once a vast river island in the heart of the Brahmaputra, now Majuli's days are numbered: Experts warn it may disappear entirely by 2040 as ever more violent flooding swells the river, wreaking havoc on the lives of those ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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The year is 2100. The glaciers of the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region—the world's "Third Pole"—are vanishing as the planet warms, the ice that once fed the great rivers of Asia is all but lost, and with it much of the water ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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Ninety-seven kilometres of rocks in Thai waters stand between Beijing and dominance over the Mekong, a mighty river that feeds millions as it threads south from the Tibetan plateau through five countries before emptying into ...
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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Proteins are often called the working molecules of the human body. A typical body has more than 20,000 different types of proteins, each of which are involved in many functions essential to human life.
Biotechnology
Jan 10, 2020
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Water has been a source of death as well as a source of life for a generation in Shenqiu, a region fed by a tributary of China's heavily polluted Yangtze river and pockmarked with notorious "cancer villages".
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