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Environment

Migrant Crisis: ?If We Don?t Stop Climate Change, Then What We See Right Now Is Just The Beginning?

The surge of people fleeing to Europe from the Middle East highlights how quickly mass migrations can occur. It may also offer a glimpse of what?s to come as climate change...

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Sustainable Development

The Saffire Experiment Will Study Real Fires in Microgravity

This combustible research project is slated for launch in 2016, and will be activated at a distance from the International Space Station to avoid, you know, setting our onl...

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Festivals

Kameleon Film Festival In December

Puducherry can build its identity as a destination where artistic cultural heritage is preserved, said Indianostrum Theatre founder Koumarane Valavane, at a press meet on S...

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Environment

Microbiologists Find Another 30,000 Year Old Giant Virus In Siberian Permafrost

For their part, scientists haven't had a very hard time finding those giant viruses. From a single sample of Siberian permafrost, they've managed to come up with two so far...

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Festivals

3rd Duhok International Film Festival Opens

The third Duhok International Film Festival launched Wednesday with the planned participation of several directors and film producers from Iran and Israel in Congress Hall ...

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Top 5

A Natural Balance

We aspire for a better world but are often absorbed with our own lives to take decisive measures. That is, until a film galvanises us into taking action. Our top five secti...

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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

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Gender

UN Official Says Women Paid 24 Percent Less Than Men Globally, 30 Percent Less In Asia

A U.N. agency is mounting a worldwide campaign for equal pay for women, who get 24 percent less than men on global average and around 30 percent less for those in Asia. Rec...

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Hollywood

Jimmy Carter Work Project To Build 100 Homes In 1 Week In Nepal

Bringing together 1,500 volunteers from within Nepal and around the world, Habitat For Humanity’s 32nd annual Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project ...

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