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Disaster Health Systems In India

Natural disasters - How prepared are India's health systems? Over 58.6% of Indian landmass is earthquake prone while 5,700km of 7,516km-long coastline is prone to cyclones ...

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Gender

Liberia's Female Entrepreneurs Rebuilding Economy

Liberia has seen better days. Three years ago, the tiny African country faced the worst Ebola epidemic of all time, resulting in more than 11,000 deaths across it and its n...

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Sustainable Development

The Quest To Turn The Arctic Into A Clean Energy Outpost Has Begun

The Canadian government's 2017 budget, released on Wednesday, funded a climate disaster mitigation fund and pledged billions to clean energy. It committed $21.9 billion to ...

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Human Rights

Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons In Fight For Land Rights

Cutting-edge technologies - from drones to data collected by taxi drivers - are becoming key weapons in the global battle to improve land rights and fight poverty, experts ...

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Environment

Canada Is Investing $2 Billion In A Climate Disaster Mitigation Fund

In its new federal budget, Canada invests in machine learning and teaching kids to code, but offers no real plan for how to address workplace automation.
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Festivals

Miami Film Festival Shines A Spotlight On Haiti

When filmmaker Owsley Brown set out to explore Haitian identity through music, he assumed it would take a couple of years. Never, however, did he imagined it would be 10. B...

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Hollywood

Irish Comedians To Support Comic Relief With St Patrick's Day Stand-Up Comedy Gig

On St. Patrick’s Day, 17th March, the cream of Irish stand-up comedy is gathering at the 3Arena in Dublin for the very first Irish event in support of Comic Relief. S...

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Environment

Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Radiation At Highest Level Since 2011 Meltdown

Radiation levels inside a damaged reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station are at their highest since the plant suffered a triple meltdown almost six years ag...

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Health

Health Cost Of Air Pollution In India Assessed At 3 Per Cent Of Its GDP

The cost of serious health consequences from Particulate Matter pollution is estimated to be around 3 per cent of India's GDP, according to a Health Ministry statement in L...

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Sustainable Development

The Looming Disaster Of The Internet Of (Hackable) Things

The Looming Disaster of the Internet of (Hackable) Things Last January, walking through the seemingly endless showroom at the gadget bonanza known as the Consumer Elec...

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