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Sustainable Development

Powerful Role Models Can Change How We Value Girls

Girls and women strive to embody images that are unrealistic, unattainable and often not even real. There’s a new, free app that allows girls and women to take a &ldq...

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Environment

Global warming could dry out a third of the Earth by 2100

Forget changing rain patterns — warmer temperatures alone could bring drought to a third of Earth’s land area by the end of the century. That’s the gist o...

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Health

Mission possible

The Centre gives India just about eight years to free its villages of open defecation. This seems unlikely. But the states of Sikkim, Haryana and Jharkhand in India, and Ba...

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Environment

Global warming: Ice loss makes Arctic itself a bigger climate changer

As the Arctic region loses ice cover to global warming, it is itself becoming a stronger contributor to warming than climate models had predicted it would, a new study find...

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Bollywood

Manish Malhotra to host show in Oman for a cause

Trinity Investment Partners, in association with NPA Events is organizing a charity dinner on February 20, 2014 at the Muscat InterContinental Hotel Lawns to raise funds fo...

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Thought Factory

Who said playing games is waste of time?

Throughout the last twenty or thirty years, parents around the world have been putting limitations on the amount of time their children spend playing games. Many a times, p...

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Trending

Woman with muscular dystrophy applies to be a fashion model as a joke, gets the job

Jillian Mercado is a fashion blogger and the editor at We The Urban… A few months ago, she saw a casting call from clothing company Diesel. They were looking for you...

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Environment

Climate change: The case of the missing heat

The biggest mystery in climate science today may have begun, unbeknownst to anybody at the time, with a subtle weakening of the tropical trade winds blowing across the Paci...

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Environment

Climate change could be worse than anyone thought

Expressed in the language of science, the paper does not generate a feeling of great alarm: “Equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the ultimate change in global m...

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Environment

Despite Bitter Cold Weekend in US, Climate Models Indicate Global Warming is Intensifying

The Australian based Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science has released a new study arguing that climate models have underestimated the extent to which the doubli...

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