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Environment

Tasmania's Coastline Glows In The Dark As Plankton Turn Blue

The waters along Tasmania’s north-west coastline have taken on a bizarre, glowing appearance in recent days. Photographs taken off Preservation Bay and Rocky Cape sho...

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Health

Time for men to stand up and be counted

In an attempt to offer a bouquet of choices to women in need of family planning services, India has introduced hormonal injectable contraceptives in its national programme....

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Sustainable Development

NASA's Adorable Pop-Up Rovers Are Designed to Explore Harsh Alien Terrains

These origami-inspired vehicles are currently in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and are designed to tackle the kinds of tricky, high-risk terrain that hav...

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Sustainable Development

The Four Coolest Concepts NASA Just Bankrolled to Solve Spaceflight Challenges

Like some glorious love child of Shark Tank and Cosmos, NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program aims to fund visionary space exploration proposals sourced ...

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Human Rights

Iceland Becomes First Country In The World To Require Gender Pay Equality

Yesterday, Iceland became the first country in the world to introduce mandatory equal pay. On International Women’s Day, the Nordic nation announced their plans to fo...

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Environment

Shell Is Abandoning Canada’s Oilsands

In a move that might be indicative of flagging international confidence in the Canadian Oil sands, Shell has announced it will exit most of its oil extraction projects in A...

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Thought Factory

Women and Work

“Historic imbalances in power relations between men and women, exacerbated by growing inequalities within and between societies and countries, are leading to greater ...

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Environment

How Climate Change Battles Are Increasingly Being Fought, And Won, In Court

Around the world courts are stepping in when politicians fail to act, with South Africa’s government the latest to lose a groundbreaking climate lawsuit with judges r...

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Environment

Finance Sector Could Face Climate-Risk Testing, Says Australian Watchdog

Australia’s financial institutions could be required to test climate-risk scenarios as international regulators continue to warn of the economic dangers posed by clim...

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Environment

David Attenborough Attacks Plan For Borneo Bridge That Threatens Orangutans

Endangered pygmy elephants and orangutans threatened by scheme for Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary David Attenborough and Steve Backshall have joined conservationists and c...

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