Few sights are more romantic than a star-filled sky, but there are fewer and fewer places on Earth where we can still enjoy a truly dark, star-filled sky. Light pollution means we risk losing one of the most romantic spectacles ...
Astronomy
Feb 12, 2020
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Despite decades of relative peace and recent efforts to promote gender equality, women and girls in Mozambique continue to experience a disproportionate amount of insecurity. A new report released today by Associação ...
Social Sciences
Nov 26, 2019
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Spending time outdoors is long understood to offer mental health perks, including reduced stress, improved sleep and enhanced cognition.
Environment
Nov 12, 2019
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As regional Australian towns face the prospect of running out of water, it's time to ask why Australia does not make better use of recycled wastewater.
Environment
Oct 25, 2019
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More than one quarter of London's parks, playground, and open spaces exceed international safety limits for air quality.
Environment
Oct 10, 2019
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pursuing an ambitious project to phase out single-use plastics by 2022 in the vast South Asian nation, which has a population of 1.3 billion.
Environment
Oct 2, 2019
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The city of Barcelona could prevent 667 premature deaths every year by implementing the proposed "Superblocks" project in its entirety. This result would be achieved mainly as a result of decreased air pollution (NO2), but ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2019
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An extensive international survey conducted at the University of Helsinki indicates that pet owners do not consider raw food to considerably increase infection risk in their household. In the survey, targeted at pet owners, ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2019
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In less than a year, skateboarding will make its debut in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. It's an international sport with an estimated 50m participants—but, more than that, skateboarding's DIY ethos and strong ties with art, ...
Social Sciences
Aug 28, 2019
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Retired union organizer Anna Burger lives by a busy road just a minute's walk from a metro station in the US capital Washington, but every morning she wakes up to a birdsong symphony.
Ecology
Aug 4, 2019
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