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Mammoths, Sabre Tooth Tigers And Other Megafauna Went Extinct

Mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers, giant sloths and other ‘megafauna’ died out across most of the world at the end of the last Ice Age because the changing climate b...

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Environment

New Study Shows Worrisome Signs For Greenland Ice

As humans put more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, like carbon dioxide, ice around the planet melts. This melting can be a problem, particularly if the melting ice...

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Environment

Humans May Be Living In Triassic-Period Conditions By 2250

The Triassic Period was a gnarly time to be alive on Earth, and not only because it was Act One of the age of dinosaurs. This epoch stretched from 251 to 199 million years ...

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TV

Sneha Mathur, A New Role Model

In the early 1990s, at the then nascent MIFF (Mumbai International Festival for Documentary, Animation and Short Films), the package from Canada included a public interest ...

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Trending

Happiness Report: Norway Is The Happiest Place On Earth

The World Happiness Report measures "subjective well-being" - how happy the people are, and why. Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and and Finland round out the top five, while...

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Hollywood

Activists, Celebrities And Governments Call To End Global Gender Pay Gap

The UN General Assembly in New York, has unveiled champions of equal pay took, putting forth a clarion call to end the global gender pay gap that stands at 23 per cent. The...

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Environment

Boaty McBoatface to go on its first Antarctic mission

A small yellow robot submarine, called Boaty McBoatface after a competition to name a new polar research ship backfired, is being sent on its first Antarctic mission.

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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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Human Rights

Growing Child Labour In India's Cities Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg, Say Activists

Urban India is employing an increasing number of children - many under nine years of age - in producing everything from pickles to fireworks, working in tourism and labouri...

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Environment

Shell's 1991 Warning: Climate Changing ‘At Faster Rate Than At Any Time Since End Of Ice Age’

Climate change “at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the ice age – change too fast perhaps for life to adapt, without severe dislocation”. T...

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