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Human Rights

I Felt Like One Of My Father's Songbirds, Let Out Of Its Cage': Driving As A Woman In Saudi Arabia

It began as a protest and became a national talking point. A women’s rights activist reveals what happened when she filmed herself behind the wheel In 2011, as the Ar...

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Festivals

'The Villainess' To Open New York Asian Film Festival

The US premiere of Jung Byung-gil’s revenge thriller and recent Cannes Midnight screening The Villainess will close the 16th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), set...

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Environment

A Gay Vulture Couple Hatched A Chick Together. They Proved 'They Can Do It'

A gay vulture couple has hatched a baby chick at a Dutch zoo, marking a momentous milestone for the lovebirds that had been trying to start a family for months, their caret...

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Gender

The Conflict Within: Parsis And Gender Rights

India’s vulture crisis, which started in the 1980s, caused the Parsi Zoroastrian community to reconsider one of its practices. Traditionally, the community does not b...

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Environment

Noise Pollution Is Drowning Out Nature Even In Protected Areas: Study

Human noises are often 10 times that of background levels, impairing our enjoyment of natural parks and impacting animal behaviour, scientists have found The sounds of the ...

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Kaleidoscope

Streets Paved With Gloom

 A few years ago, there was a huge wave of workers going from Kerala to the Gulf countries in search of better prospects. It would not ...

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Environment

Sometimes The Best Way To Make Change Is To Make Trouble

We decided to go to Malta because we were fed up with the inactivity from NGOs about the endless trapping and killing of migratory birds there. We first went four years ago...

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Environment

17 Western Ghats Have Smaller Ranges Than What Experts Estimated

Birds endemic to the biodiverse Western Ghats appear to be in greater danger than they were thought to be, because the range of places they live in may have been overestima...

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Trending

More Antartic Protections Urged On #WorldPenguinDay

The world needs to do more to protect the Antarctic wilderness and its wildlife, scientists warned Tuesday, as they marked World Penguin Day. The flightless seabirds -- a f...

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Sustainable Development

This Scientist Wants To Sequence The Genomes of 8,000 Endangered Animals Before They’re Gone

Erich Jarvis has a selfish reason for wanting to sequence the genomes of thousands of endangered animals. He needs a bunch of these species to survive long enough for him t...

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