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Victoria's Secret Models Host Charity Cycle

Victoria’s Secret Models Alessandra Ambrosio, Lily Aldridge, Elsa Hosk, Lais Ribeiro, and Martha Hunt hosted Supermodel Cycle to benefit Pelotonia – an annual g...

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Environment

Big data’s biggest challenge: climate change

Researchers are using big data technology to model, interpret, and illustrate the predicted environmental effects of climate change. Global sea levels are about eight inche...

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Sustainable Development

Systematic approach to in-situ water harvesting assures irrigation

During summer, the field is ploughed and furrows (one foot depth) are made. When it rains the water stays back in each of the furrows and sinks into the soil. Fast changing...

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Hollywood

Adm. Michelle Howard becomes first four-star woman in Navy history

The ceremony included a bit of comedy, but there was no denying the significance: For the first time in its history, the Navy promoted a woman on Tuesday to become a four-s...

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Sustainable Development

Why women in India are farming with diverse plants – and without pesticides

In India, many women are planting more than 20 different crops on their farms with nutrition – and not money – in mind. This type of farming stems back to previ...

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Hollywood

“She Started It” Aims To Change Silicon Valley’s Gender Inequality Problem

A NEW FILM FOCUSES ON WHAT MAKES FEMALE ENTREPRENEURS SUCCEED--AND INSPIRES THE NEXT GENERATION OF GIRLS TO FOLLOW SUIT. ?You can?t be what you can?t see? said Marie Wilson...

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Environment

How is Today’s Warming Different from the Past?

Earth has experienced climate change in the past without help from humanity. We know about past climates because of evidence left in tree rings, layers of ice in glaciers, ...

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Environment

Climate-smart development can increase global economic output by $1.8 trillion: World Bank

Right policy choices can deliver significant economic and health benefits – as well as help reduce emissions to combat climate change, says new report A recently rele...

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Sustainable Development

Younger generations prepare themselves to solve water scarcity

With the residents facing difficult conditions due to scarcity of water, the need for creating awareness among them to raise the groundwater level is significant. Being par...

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Sustainable Development

Cost of growth: Global natural resources depleting by 45% a year

Analysis of data by World Bank from 136 countries shows poor countries are losing natural resources fast without gaining much by way of human resource capital or gross weal...

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