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Six Questions About The Zika Virus, Answered

Some doctors in Brazil have been warning women not to get pregnant, and last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued travel advisories suggesting pregnan...

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Sustainable Development

The Buddhist Monk Who Uses Space To Teach Spirituality

In a pitch black room, Ryo Kasuga talk?s space as a simulated solar system rotates above my head. Kasuga, however, is no astronomer. He?s a Buddhist monk intent on using th...

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Royalty Join Forces With Shakira, Messi To Promote U.N. Global Goals

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United Nations on Tuesday enlisted a high-profile roster of royalty, entertainers and business leaders to promote its glob...

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Sustainable Development

This Japanese Band Makes Music With E-Waste

Open Reel Ensemble love producing weird sounds from obsolete tech?the more warped the better. The Japanese musicians connect old tape recorders, television sets, and ventil...

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Gender

Owning Property Empowers Women In Unique Ways”: An Interview With Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was the Director and Professor of Economics at ...

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Environment

Global Warming Could Delay The Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research make clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions...

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How India Is Shaping Facebook’s Strategy

Out of around 1.5 billion people who use Facebook every month, 138 million are from India. No wonder Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, chose New Delhi for ...

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Health

Milestones In Indian Healthcare

The last 16 years have been eventful for India, dotted with significant achievements and failures. The recently released United Nations Development Programme’s Human ...

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Gender

India Needs To “Save Its Daughters” Through Education And Gender Equality

Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in politics, economics, education or health — is still a d...

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Sustainable Development

Smart Spoon Helps Parkinson's Patients Feed Themselves

Enter GYENNO’s Smart Spoon, a stabilization utensil device that offsets 85 percent of unwanted tremors for users affected by diseases like Parkinson’s. The spoo...

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