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Environment

Those Plumes Of Methane Leaking Off The Coast Of Washington Are Really Bad News For The Oceans

As the oceans absorb greater amounts of carbon dioxide from human-caused emissions, the waters off Washington and Oregon have become more acidic. That has forced some comme...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Says There’s ‘Not a Lot of Effort’ Going into Satellite Internet Plan

SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell pumped the brakes on the company’s audacious plan to launch 4,000 internet-providing satellites into orbi...

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Gender

Indian Women Facing Inequality At All Stages Of Life Cycle: UN Study

A study of the United Nations released on 20 October 2015 observed that Indian women are facing inequality at all stages of life cycle-from birth to old age-and in all plac...

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Festivals

Tokyo International Film Festival 2015, Terminal And Three Love Stories

The Tokyo International Film Festival has more in common with its mega-corporate Coca-Cola sponsor than it might like to think, as both are in the business of churning out ...

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Hollywood

Amy Poehler And Will Ferrell Raise Funds For Suicide Prevention.

Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell and director Andrew J. Cohen are helping to raise awareness and funds for the Didi Hirsch Suicide Prevention Center by offering a chance for a wal...

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Bollywood

Aamir Khan Excited About ICC And Unicef’s Association To Promote Underprivileged Children

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, who is Unicef Ambassador for South Asia, has applauded its decision to associate with the International Cricket Council (ICC), the global go...

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Health

WHO Experts Signal Victory Over One Of Three Polio Strains

GENEVA: The world should stop vaccinating children against one of the three strains of the crippling polio virus as part of a drive to eradicate the disease once and for al...

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Environment

Indonesia's Fires Are Emitting More Carbon Pollution Than The Entire US Economy

More than 115,000 fires are burning across the Southeast Asian nation, most of them on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, according to the Global Fire Emissions Databas...

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Sustainable Development

Microbes From Human Skin Have Colonized The ISS

Researchers led by Kasthuri Venkateswaran, a molecular biologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studied dust particles collected from ISS vacuums and air filter...

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Gender

Child Marriage: A Devastating Effect Of The Refugee Crisis

The global refugee crisis triggered by the Syrian war and other conflicts poses a major challenge for governments around the world. Behind the scenes, though, it is exacerb...

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