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COP 23: three ways cities are leading the fight against climate change

Photo: Jørn Eriksson – Flickr Oslo by Night – Office buildings and apartments in Bjørvika, part of the redesign of former dock and industrial land in Oslo known as The Barcode Project. Oslo is Europe’s Green Capital 2019 Frognerparken, Oslo Barbara Norman, University of Warwick The…

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Democrats’ sweep of Virginia shows the state is moving beyond its Confederate past

Gov.-elect Ralph Northam won handily in Virginia with a campaign focused on abortion rights, racial justice and support for immigration. He has black voters and northern Virginia’s diverse suburbs to thank for the victory. Photo: Cliff Owen/Reuters Author: Toni-Michelle C. Travis,…

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Xi Jinping sets out plans to make China great again

Journalists work at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct 18, 2017. The Communist Party of China (CPC) opened the 19th National Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct 16.…

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu: the essence of what it means to be human

Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 86th birthday and the unveiling of an arch in his honor outside St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Reuters/Mike HutchingsAuthor: Keymanthri Moodley, Stellenbosch University As Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu celebrated his 86th birthday, it’s fitting to reflect…

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Brazil’s biggest problem isn’t corruption — it’s murder

Bricks, laid out in front of Congress, represent the staggering number of Brazilians killed each week. Photo: Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters Renato Sérgio de Lima, Fundação Getúlio Vargas As Crime Wave Hits Brazil, Daily Death Toll Tops Syria Somewhere between outraged and perplexed,…

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Why Trump’s decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake

Photo: AFP / Getty Images Hundreds of cartoonists from around the world have taken part in a competition in Iran attacking Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s justification for decertifying the Iran nuclear deal stems from his view that Iran is violating…

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How healthy soils make for a healthy life

Soils play an important role in the nutritional value of our food. Ee Ling Ng, University of Melbourne and Deli Chen, University of Melbourne The next time you bite into an apple, spare a thought for the soils that helped…

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Ebola; How we developed a cheap, accurate, on-the-spot test for it

Photo: Thinkstock. The ebola virus, magnified 108,000 times. Sterghios Moschos, Northumbria University, Newcastle We have developed technology that reliably detects the Ebola virus in a blood sample seven times faster, ten times cheaper and 700 times safer than doing it…

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#SaudiWomenCanDrive; Saudi decree surprising everyone

Photo: Welcome to the driver’s seat. #SaudiWomenMove#SaudiWomenCanDrivepic.twitter.com/oksRbFvLWa — Ford Middle East (@FordMiddleEast) Haifaa Jawad, University of Birmingham In an unexpected move that surprised everyone, including his own people, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia has suddenly passed a royal decree…

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Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible

The window for staving off the worst of climate change is wider than we thought, but still pretty narrow. Tatiana Grozetskaya/Shutterstock.com Dave Frame, Victoria University of Wellington and H. Damon Matthews, Concordia University The Paris climate agreement has two aims:…

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Author: The Conversation

COP 23: three ways cities are leading the fight against climate change

Democrats’ sweep of Virginia shows the state is moving beyond its Confederate past

Xi Jinping sets out plans to make China great again

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: the essence of what it means to be human

Brazil’s biggest problem isn’t corruption — it’s murder

Why Trump’s decertification of the Iran nuclear deal may prove a costly mistake

How healthy soils make for a healthy life

Ebola; How we developed a cheap, accurate, on-the-spot test for it

#SaudiWomenCanDrive; Saudi decree surprising everyone

Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible

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