In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates.
Economics & Business
Aug 12, 2024
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Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga (Grus rubicunda or burraalga ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2024
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The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later compelled ...
Social Sciences
Aug 15, 2024
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In 2002, after a Pentagon news briefing, the then US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld was widely ridiculed for his thoughts about knowledge. Discussing the issue of whether Iraq was supplying weapons of mass destruction ...
Economics & Business
Aug 15, 2024
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A recent study shows social media influencers are more important than previously thought when it comes to getting out vital information in a crisis.
Social Sciences
Sep 4, 2024
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The treatment of asylum seekers is an important issue for many countries as they grapple with polarized public views on the issue. Some policymakers focus on the need for border security to keep asylum-seekers out and "protect" ...
Social Sciences
Aug 23, 2024
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A bill that sought to overhaul California's system for wildfire hazard mapping has died in the state Assembly.
Environment
Aug 19, 2024
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The new European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is intended to prevent goods marketed in the EU from contributing to the spread of deforestation. When a wood product is brought into the EU market, for example, there must ...
Ecology
Sep 2, 2024
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Most space mission systems historically have used one spacecraft designed to complete an entire mission independently. Whether it was a weather satellite or a human-crewed module like Apollo, nearly every spacecraft was deployed ...
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2024
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Japan warned Wednesday that an "extremely strong" typhoon bearing down on the main southern island of Kyushu would bring unusually violent storms, as three people remained missing after a landslide.
Environment
Aug 28, 2024
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