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Sustainable Development

Light Pollution Is Throwing Off The Seasons

In a study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers describe how night-time light pollution is causing early budburst—emergenc...

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Festivals

Michigan Film Fest Fetes Women, Minorities

Movies by women and minorities are the focus of this year's Traverse City Film Festival, July 26-31, held in northern Michigan's popular summer playground. More than 200 fi...

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Alternative Entertainment

Music Festivals Add Harmony To Old Morocco

Ah, Morocco. To sit in the courtyard of a boutique riad, sipping mint tea from tiny ornate glasses as a sparrow dips its beak into a fountain strewn with rose petals and cl...

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Health

BLOG: 7 Rights Every Pregnant Woman In India Should Know About

The Indian government and health system have been derided for not being able to reduce the number of maternal deaths, despite the growth in economy.
Interestingly, in ...

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Human Rights

UN Human Rights Council: Using Sport And The Olympic Ideal To Promote Human Rights For All, Including Persons With Disabilities

For more than a decade, Human Rights Watch has documented human rights abuses linked to mega-sporting events, or MSEs, such as the Olympics, football’s World Cup, For...

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Festivals

Film Festival To Highlight Animal-Human-Nature Co-Relation

A unique two-month-long film festival focusing on the relationship among animals, humans and nature begins here next month with over 150 films from more than 40 countries l...

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Alternative Entertainment

Street Artist Turns His Aerosol Toward Saving The Bees

Nick Sweetman has been part of Toronto’s street art scene for years. Now, he’s taking a global approach as part of the city’s Street ARToronto program. &l...

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Alternative Entertainment

Street Kids Wield The Brush To Spread Message Against Drug Abuse, Child Labour

It is not every day that a nine-year-old speaks about how humiliating it is to see her drug-addict mother suffer the consequences of her habit.
“My parents are b...

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Environment

Global Air Pollution Crisis 'Must Not Be Left To Private Sector'

The global air pollution crisis killing more than 6 million people a year must be tackled by governments as a matter of urgency and not just left to the private sector, a r...

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Alternative Entertainment

Surrealist Filmmaker Jan Svankmajer Is About To Make His Final Feature Film & You Can Help Produce It

No filmmaker combines live action with stop-motion quite like Jan Švankmajer, and certainly no filmmaker has used that combination to such imaginative and troubling ...

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