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Human Rights

Universal Human Rights - The Foundations Of The Global Goals

This April will mark the third anniversary of one of the world's worst industrial disasters in history. In 2013, over 1,100 workers were tragically killed during the collap...

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Environment

'War Of The Woods’ Over A Massive Canadian Rainforest Ends With A Peace Agreement

The brokered deal will protect most of the world's largest temperate rainforest, banning industrial logging in 85 per cent of the remote wilderness area, which stretches th...

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Sustainable Development

From Droughts TO Disease, 2015 Highlighted Our Food System's Shortcomings

2015 was a bit of a news roller-coaster when it came to the things we eat. We?ve made some progress over the year in some areas but struggled to cope in others as we faced ...

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Environment

NO2 Emission Rising In India, New NASA Air Quality Maps Show.

The emission of the nitrogen dioxide pollutant has gone up significantly in the South Asia region, including India, during the 2005-2014 period, severely affecting air qual...

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Health

Small Metal Grate Makes Big Impact On Environment, Health

A University of Iowa researcher created an inexpensive metal insert for primitive cookstoves, such as this one used in a remote village in India, that may decrease global w...

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Environment

We Asked Canadian Experts on Climate Change: Are We Screwed?

Over the last century, humans have warmed the earth by 0.9 degrees Celsius by way of industrial expansion. Ahead of the Paris talks that begin?Monday, the United Nations ha...

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Gender

Women Closing The Gender Gap For Entrepreneurship

Women around the world have narrowed the gender gap in entrepreneurship by 6 percent from 2012 to 2014 and are finding paths to launching more businesses in industrialized ...

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Environment

China's Dirty Air Just Hit 'Doomsday' Levels

The smog grounded flights, closed highways, and prompted officials to tell residents to stay indoors. Visibility in the northeastern industrial city of 5 million was just a...

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Thought Factory

Environment, Development And The Paradox Of Progress

The wisdom of ancients was cast in proverbial stone when the Atharva Veda extolled believers to worship the environment, and consequently immortalized the message of preser...

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Thought Factory

The Subdued Whispers Of Posterity In Fallout

The world stood still as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb quoted from a passage of the Bhagvad Geeta where Krishna reveals himself to Arjuna “I ha...

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