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Environment

It Turns Out Earth Has Seven Times as Many Trees as Previously Thought

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers describe using a combination of satellite imaging, boots on the ground trees-counting, and forest inventor...

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Festivals

How Toronto International Film Festival Is Planning To Expand Its Global Footprint & Widen Its Focus

Two years ago, after the screening of the Partition drama Qissa at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Irrfan Khan sat down with his co-stars and director for a...

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Bollywood

Akshay, Hrithik, AR Rahman join global campaign on UN SDGs

Bollywood stars Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan and Oscar-winning composer A. R. Rahman have joined an ambitious global campaign that aims to spread awareness about the Sus...

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Festivals

Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne

“The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context.” So wrote Mary McCarthy in her charming, philosophical tra...

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Gender

A New Ratings System Will Assess Schooling For Girls Worldwide

An advocacy group set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and Foreign Policy Magazine are launching an annual index to assess the availability and quality of ed...

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Bollywood

Top Bollywood Actresses Come Together For India’s ‘I Am Girl Rising’ Campaign.

Contemporary actresses including Kareena Kapoor, Nandita Das, Madhuri Dixit-Nene, Parineeti Chopra, Sushmita Sen, and Alia Bhatt set their differences aside to come togethe...

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Trending

Japan Is Building A Giant Robotic Lettuce Factory

Indoor lettuce-growing is in vogue. And it’s being taken over by robots.In 2016, Japanese vegetable production company Spread plans (pdf) to begin building a lettuce ...

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Health

The United Nations Must Acknowledge That Mental Health Is A Development Goal

Around the world, some of the “treatments” for mental illness include being chained, isolated in a prison cell and physically abused. These human rights violati...

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Environment

Tens of Thousands of Stranded Walruses Are Once Again Gathering in Alaska

With the sea ice where they rest and hunt melted away, thousands of walruses have once again flooded the shoreline near the village of Point Lay, Alaska. The massings, whic...

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Sustainable Development

The UN’s Sustainability Plan Is ‘Doomed,’ According to Linguistic Analysis.

The UN will launch its 2030 Sustainable Development agenda at the end of this month in New York City, where it will be formally adopted by over 150 world leaders after year...

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