Farmland birds like the corn bunting have seen their numbers plummet since 1980.
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Insect-eating birds such as swifts and yellow wagtails are particularly vulnerable.
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Rubbish can be reused or recycled – or it may end up in a dumpsite.
‘Be a man’: Russian marine conscripts at a departure ceremony at Trinity Cathedral in St Petersburg.
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The Kremlin’s appeals to Russian masculinity will miss the mark. Russian men have changed over the past two decades.
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Lung and thyroid cancers are the least well-funded cancers compared to their global burdens.
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Education, contacts and luck can play a considerable role when it comes to building up wealth.
Investigators inspect a building after a Ukrainian drone reportedly damaged an apartment building in Moscow on May 30.
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Drone strikes in Moscow are just one sign of an intensifying air war ahead of Ukraine’s offensive.
Recycling can be a bit of a headache.
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Confusion about what should and shouldn’t be recycled? You’re not alone – and it’s causing some people to ignore recycling altogether.
Leadership potential.
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In the rapidly changing, ambiguous and unpredictable world of work, future leaders must be able to learn fast.
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Once again ethnic tensions have boiled over in Kosovo.
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Wakefulness drugs like Modafinil point to a new frontier of technosleep driven by personal goals rather than medical need.
Common sense is broadly defined as a shared set of beliefs and approaches to thinking about the world.
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We often view common sense as an authority of collective knowledge that is universal and constant.
Informal workers earning very little carry out most of the world’s recycling.
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Making less plastic and reusing what exists should be the priority.
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High temperatures are also a cause of illness and death for migrants.
Workplaces could become “anti-human”: centred around technology rather than people.
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Automation risks making work environments less hospitable to the people who remain.
The soil you use for your roses may contain something sinister.
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Gardening is often seen as a relaxing, harmless pasttime – but that isn’t always the case.
An X-ray image comparing a healthy spine and one showing signs of ankylosing spondylitis.
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Our new study demonstrates the enormous potential that machine learning has to help identify people with AS
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Charisma matters in elections campaigns, as a study carried out just before the 2019 election shows.
‘Take back control.’
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After Brexit, the UK has had fewer migrants from the EU, but they have been far outstripped by people coming from elsewhere.
Peter Howson with one of his most recent works, Wagner.
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Painting with renewed purpose at 65, Peter Howson has overcome his demons to take his place as one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists.
Elder statesman: Henry Kissinger addresses the 2023 Davos World Economic Forum via videolink.
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Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore the importance of Henry Kissinger’s legacy in government and as a public intellectual.