There's a lot of talk about digital technology and smart cities, but what about smart farms? Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills and farm kids cuddling calves, but our food in Canada increasingly ...
Environment
Apr 9, 2019
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Pale blue, fibre-optic-like lines linking dots in an outline of China emerging from darkness—technology giant Baidu has launched an astronomical chart-style image of the country's New Year travels.
Telecom
Jan 28, 2014
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COVID-19 raises crucial questions about how best to move forward from the pandemic and its many effects. We are reassessing key political and economic assumptions and perceptions of what is possible and desirable.
Ecology
May 25, 2020
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There's a lot of talk about digital technology and smart cities, but what about smart farms? Many of us still have a romantic view of farmers surveying rolling hills and farm kids cuddling calves, but our food in Canada increasingly ...
Environment
May 1, 2019
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A new online system designed to make it easier for people to buy train tickets home for the Lunar New Year has been overwhelmed by huge demand from millions of travellers across China.
Other
Jan 4, 2012
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Millions of people work abroad as maids, construction workers and other low-wage laborers. The money they send back home is essential to their families, helping them start businesses, send children to school and buy homes.
Social Sciences
Apr 24, 2015
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In June, President Trump promised that his administration would work to deport "millions of illegal aliens" from the U.S. via increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and a ramping up of Border Patrol agents.
Social Sciences
Aug 26, 2019
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8
University of Washington geographer Kam Wing Chan is in China this week, explaining how that country can dismantle its 55-year-old system that limits rural laborers from moving to and settling in cities and qualifying for ...
Economics & Business
Aug 14, 2013
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As COVID-19 affects global food systems, tremendous impacts are being felt by coastal communities and small-scale fishers, many of whom are self-employed and rely on the catch to feed their own households or local communities.
Ecology
May 26, 2020
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As governments around the world begin to reopen their borders, it's clear that efforts to revive the economy are redrawing the lines between who will prosper, who will suffer and who will die.
Economics & Business
Jul 6, 2020
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