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Sustainable Development

This App Helps Citizens Report Deadly Mosquito Sightings

For the past two years, Spanish citizens have been using an app dubbed ‘Mosquito Alert’ to report sightings and breeding grounds of Aedes albopictus, or Tiger m...

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Environment

There's A New Plan To Stop Climate Change: Turn CO2 Emissions Into Stone

"It's a promising result," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who was not involved in the project. "If this could be done at a l...

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Festivals

American Black Film Festival Celebrates 20 Years

Years ago Jeff Friday attended the Sundance Film Festival, looked around and did not see black people represented.
So he decided to do something about it.
On Wedn...

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Alternative Entertainment

Get A Fly-On-The-Wall View Of John Lennon Recording & Arranging His Classic Song, “Imagine” (1971)

In a recent interview, the perennially cheerful Paul McCartney talked candidly about his depression after the Beatles’ 1970 breakup, a revelation that may have come a...

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Bollywood

Preity Zinta Lends Support Towards Drought

The actress recently constructed a well in a village near Nasik city in Maharashtra that was inaugurated on Sunday. Preity Zinta, who was in the news for her private weddin...

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Hollywood

Elton John And Desmond Tutu Pen Op-Ed On Making Aids History

Elton John and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu penned an op-ed published on CNN.com about the United Nations’ 2016 High Level Meeting on Ending AIDS to be held this ...

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Gender

Alcohol Isn’t The Cause Of Campus Sexual Assault. Men Are.

Bystanders who intervene, not less booze, would help prevent it. Ask Brock Turner or his father what made him sexually assault an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on the...

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Human Rights

UGC Notifies India’s First Gender Neutral Regulations On Sexual Harassment

The University Grants Commission has notified India’s first gender-neutral Regulations relating to Sexual harassment. New UGC regulations on Sexual harassment prevent...

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Sustainable Development

This School Goes Door-To-Door, To Roads, Railway Stations To Educate Children

Started in 1988 with a small slum in Cuffe Parade, Ranjani Paranjpe and Bina Lashkari went from door to door, speaking to parents and asking their children to join their sc...

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Environment

Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct By Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say

Australia — Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first...

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