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Cheetah 'More Vulnerable To Extinction Than Previously Thought'

Urgent action is needed to stop the cheetah – the world’s fastest land animal– becoming extinct, experts have warned. Scientists estimate that only 7,100 ...

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Environment

New Map Reveals Shattering Effect Of Roads On Nature

Rampant road building has shattered the Earth’s land into 600,000 fragments, most of which are too tiny to support significant wildlife, a new study has revealed. The...

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Sustainable Development

Powerful new technique reveals the mechanical environment of cells in their natural habitat, the living embryo

Whether building organs or maintaining healthy adult tissues, cells use biochemical and mechanical cues from their environment to make important decisions, such as becoming...

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Human Rights

Habitat Iii: How India Is Working Towards Building Liveable Cities

Indian urban planners, architects, activists and thinkers are working on interesting, though not widely known, projects in different parts of the country In the UN’s ...

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Environment

World On Track To Lose Two-Thirds Of Wild Animals By 2020, Major Report Warns

The number of wild animals living on Earth is set to fall by two-thirds by 2020, according to a new report, part of a mass extinction that is destroying the natural world u...

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Environment

Brazil’s Sweet River Still Runs Orange Seven Months After A Massive Mining Spill

The millions of liters of waste — a volume roughly equal to the capacity of the Hoover Dam — that gushed out of the Fundão mining dam on November 5 last ...

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Environment

Harnessing Local Pride For Global Conservation

The toughest problems to solve are the ones that are hard to detect and require humans to change their behavior. That puts conservation at the top of the list. According to...

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Human Rights

The Waste-Side Story

An evening titled ‘Waste Narratives’ was recently held at the India Habitat Centre to mark the inclusion of waste pickers and informal waste dealers in the newl...

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Environment

Video: Zookeepers Killed a Critically Endangered Gorilla After He Grabbed a Four-Year Old at the Zoo

A western lowland male gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo was killed by keepers on Saturday after he dragged around a four-year-old boy who fell into the animal's enclosure, a z...

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Sustainable Development

NASA Is Investing In Growable Habitats And Sleep Chambers

Through NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC), the agency invests in many seemingly impossible technologies. Known for taking out-of-the-box concepts tha...

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