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Fall is here: Why do some trees lose their leaves while others stay green?
The autumn has arrived and northeastern North America’s forests will soon grace us with a breathtaking palette of reds, yellows and golds. These vivid colours will then fade, giving way to bare ...
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How the ‘social cost of carbon’ measurement can hide economic inequalities and mask climate suffering
While poorer nations face more severe climate impacts, their ‘social cost of carbon’ remains disproportionately low, reflecting deeper economic inequities that complicate global climate action.
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Landmark UN Debate on Crimes against Humanity Treaty
A landmark debate taking place on October 9, 2024, at the United Nations headquarters will be a litmus test of states’ willingness to prevent and punish crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch ...
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Singapore Moves Further Out of Step on Death Penalty
Click to expand Image A vigil for Malaysian national Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, at Speakers’ Corner in ...
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Japan: Chinese Authorities Harass Critics Abroad
The Chinese government’s harassment of people from China, including those from Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia, and their family members back home, appears aimed at deterring members of the ...
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‘Cajun Navy’ volunteers who participate in search-and-rescue operations after hurricanes are forming long-lasting organizations
The volunteers who take part in search-and-rescue operations and then support disaster survivors belong to organizations that have become more formal and established over the past decade. That’s what ...
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New Zealand’s BMI threshold for publicly funded fertility treatment is outdated and unethical. Here’s why it should go
Māori and Pacific women are particularly disadvantaged by the BMI limit on access to public fertility treatment. Research shows Polynesians are much leaner than Europeans at significantly higher BMIs.
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Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with ‘charismatic authority’
The Yolngu Bark Petitions were immediately recognised by many as emblems of the unshakeable confidence of Indigenous Australians in their right to their territory.
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Rebates for buying e-bikes and e-scooters are good but unlikely to greatly boost sustainable transport on their own
Rebates may well increase ownership but won’t overcome the main obstacles to riding e-bikes and e-scooters, which are lack of infrastructure and concerns about safety.
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Sex machina: in the wild west world of human-AI relationships, the lonely and vulnerable are most at risk
A growing number of people (mostly men) find AI relationship apps addictive and alluring. So what are the likely effects of this technology on us as human beings?
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Going off grid is a financial win for some, but it’s a threat for poorer families and the environment
Both solar and battery systems costs have just dropped to the point that grid defection will save the average family money, but this could increase emissions in some cases.
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Machine learning cracked the protein-folding problem and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry
The prize honors innovation at Google DeepMind and in academia. Three researchers share the award for using machine learning to predict proteins’ 3D shapes and design the molecules from scratch.