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Human Rights

Chhattisgarh Communities Assert Forest Rights

Members of the Sanauli gram sabha show the woods chopped down by the Chattisgarh Van Vikas Nigam Credit: Shruti Agarwal A small Gond village in Rajnandgoan district of Chha...

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Environment

Why Climate Change Could Benefit Parts Of Canada’s Boreal Forest

Fact, he argues that Quebec’s massive boreal forest could provide a much-needed “refuge” for plants and animals, as much of the continent gets hotter and ...

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Sustainable Development

Changing Kenya’s Landscape For Wildlife And Jobseekers

Twenty years ago, this wildlife corridor in southern Kenya was in jeopardy. A scarcity of jobs in this impoverished, arid landscape meant people were hunting wild giraffe a...

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Environment

Norway Will Stop Using Products From Deforestation

Oil-rich Norway is taking a big step in saving tropical rainforests that are crucial to absorbing the world's carbon emissions. The Scandinavian country has become the firs...

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Norway Becomes First Country In The World To Commit To Zero Deforestation

Norway has become the first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation. The
Norwegian parliament pledged the government’s public procurement polic...

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Environment

Australia Scrubbed From UN Climate Change Report After Government Intervention

Every reference to Australia was scrubbed from the final version of a major UN report on climate change after the Australian government intervened, objecting that the infor...

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Hollywood

Forest Whitaker: We Need To Solve Humanitarian Crises Together

On the opening day of the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, the Special Envoy of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Forest ...

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Fire-Damaged Brazilian Tortoise Receives New 3D Printed Shell

A team of specialists in Brazil have designed a new 3D printed replacement shell for a tortoise whose armour was destroyed in a bushfire last year. The self-titled “A...

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TV

True Review Television - Doordarshan’s Tribute To Mothers

Last Sunday, which was also Mother’s Day, as I watched the Prerna Awards on DD National, I was overwhelmed by the stories narrated on stage by Daughters who acknowled...

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Environment

Twenty Percent Of The World's Plants Could Go Extinct — And It's Not Just From Climate Change

With the human population fast approaching 8 billion, human beings are leveling forests, clearing savannas, and transforming entire landscapes to make way for industrial-sc...

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