Short news from the USA and Mexico.
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Short news from the United Kingdom.
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Short news from Spain.
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Short news from Burkina Faso.
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Short news from India.
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Short news from Japan.
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The small Mexican flower bat lives in central Mexico, for part of the year at least.
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In Mongolia, going to the hairdresser or booking up an electrician is not something to do off the cuff.
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One of the oldest Bulgarian rites is Nestinarstvo, or fire running. Women and men - the Nestinari - actually run across glowing coals.
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The Adjumani district in northern Uganda is mostly dry and hot. Right now, the main topic of conversation there is the conflict over resources in its cooler and fertile Apaa rainforest area. This is home to the Acholi and Madi tribes, who supply themselves with forest with wood and food. Now, influential people, some of them government officials, have acquired large sections of the country.
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An oasis couldn't be more beautiful, with a moon-shaped lake and surrounded by “singing” dunes.
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The challenges of climate change are overwhelming but before we can save the planet we must first save ourselves, says philosopher Charles Taylor.
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Technical interventions could cool the earth and stop climate change. Is this a good idea?
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The Eastern Himalayas have the biggest biodiversity of anywhere in the world but in recent years, locals have waited in vain for cherry blossom, a popular local flower and the focus of a festival in the mountainous city of Shillong in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya.
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With some 30 million people residing in the Amazon region, it is tough to reconcile economic development and conservation.
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We need a rhetoric of pleasure, not of guilt, postulates the philosopher Timothy Morton. A conversation about solar-powered clubs and saving the polar bears.
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Is it possible to reset humankind’s self-destructive behaviour?
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How can we share out responsibility for damaging our climate? Introducing the notion of “risk sharing”.
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Why are we not succeeding in stopping climate change? Five reasons for our short-sightedness and five suggestions for rescuing our species.
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Tangier Island lies off the east coast of the United States. Jennifer Gray visits an island on the brink.
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Kenya has banned plastic bags and its new policy is starting to bear fruit.
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Everyone’s on the lookout for the big catastrophe, but the world won’t end with the next hurricane.
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Illegal imports of European brands are hurting Bolivia’s once vibrant textile industry.
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Increasingly governments are discovering the potential of wooing overseas voters. It is a double-edged sword.
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Many people who fled to central and northern Europe were left stranded in Croatia - only to be deported. Five biographies.
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In Medellin modern libraries have sprouted up where the Colombian drug cartel once prevailed.
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Worldwide there is hardly a head of state who enjoys the lofty approval ratings of acting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But this is hardly a reason to celebrate.
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Sure, they are now in the German Parliament! Talking to them is depressing - I often lack the patience - but it is necessary.
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“If you believe lawyers and jurists who work in international law, the world has become an increasingly fair place over the last few centuries. […] But international law also has an often overlooked flipside which is dark, violent and misanthropic and hails from its history.”
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In his book “Stamped from the Beginning”, Ibram X. Kendi shows how stereotypes of Afro-Americans are instrumentalized in politics.
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