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Holidays should be a time for children to relax both their bodies and their brains.
NIF’s target chamber, where a powerful laser is used to start nuclear fusion reactions.
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A US national lab has proved we can the fusion process can be used to produce energy, but it’s just the first step in a very long process.
Issa chimpanzees live in a woodland dominated environment interspersed with riparian forests, grasslands, and rocky out-crops.
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Almost all theories of human bipedalism explain it as a terrestrial adaptation. A new study does not support that view.
All of Ghana’s main sources of drinking water have been contaminated by illegal mining activities.
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Through articles written by academic experts in the course of the year, The Conversation Africa takes a look back at Ghana in 2022.
An illustration from Ducks.
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Creative literature has a unique role to play in fighting the climate crisis, as these three graphic novels prove.
Climate change is slowly getting on the political agenda in Africa.
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South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
The sun setting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, host of COP27. The results of the international meeting were disappointing overall.
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The historic agreement on a loss and damage fund was overshadowed by lack of progress on phasing out fossil fuels.
A herder grazes cattle alongside wildlife in Samburu, Kenya.
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Conservation that places less emphasis on who may or may not use a piece of land could result in better outcomes for people and wildlife.
Ivory poaching is threatening regional elephant populations.
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Japan was one of the world’s largest ivory markets – research explains why the country is no longer a key destination for the product.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup, beginning on Nov. 20, will be held in Qatar.
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As the FIFA World Cup kicks off, researchers take a look at the impact of climate change on the future of soccer.
The UN Sustainable Development Goals have been on the agenda at this year’s COP27 meeting in Egypt.
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The UN Sustainable Development Goals set a target date of 2030. To meet that deadline, international collaboration and funding is required.
Los Angeles.
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Mike Davis’s radical urban history of LA was a trailblazing book that remains startlingly relevant to those of us who live in other supersizing cities in the early 21st century.
A mangrove seed at Nxaxo estuary on South Africa’s Wild Coast.
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Mangroves support a significant amount of biodiversity and their soils can capture a great deal of carbon.
Forest fire in Spain, July 2022.
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We don’t really know how much companies care about the environment.
The economy depends on the environment. Economics can seem to forget that point.
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With a square and a circle, the father of ecological economics and a founding architect of sustainable development redrew our understanding of the economy. It was revolutionary.
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Australia is no longer an international laggard when it comes to addressing the problem of carbon emissions, but its is loping along in the middle of a slow-moving pack.
Farmer preparing bean bags at a market in northern Nigeria.
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The impact of climate change on the spread of crop pests is established. Biological control methods show some promise but the pace of climate change means scientists are in a race against time.
Desire’s story of loss and longing is threaded with moments of hope, like a ‘dangerous but invigorating’ ocean swim.
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Jessie Cole’s memoir traces a love affair: a long-distance relationship with an unnamed, older lover. It’s set against layers of thinking about love, desire, bodies and ecological disaster.
Contrary to official estimates, Britons may still be consuming too much meat.
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Official estimates indicate that meat consumption is falling in the UK – but not all of the data agrees.
From Alaska to Alabama, corporations spend money to shape their local business environments, resources and regulations.
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Businesses can spend huge amounts of money to influence Congress. But sizable lobbyist and campaign donations also go to state campaigns and lawmakers to influence policymaking.