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Farmers and their supporters are bringing Delhi and other cities to a standstill.
The young woman stands accused of trivialising history but perhaps a more nuanced debate is needed.
A campaign to change the name of a road in London’s ‘Little India’‘ has succeeded. While some members of the local Sikh population welcome it, others aren’t so happy.
Fears over the sinister side of artificial intelligence have become reality
Las olas de calor extremo no se vigilan sistemáticamente en la mayoría de los países del África subsahariana. Esto provoca muertes innecesarias y prematuras que a menudo ni siquiera se registran.
Despite a fresh approach from the White House, internal issues make it unlikely that conflict in eastern provinces of Ukraine will end in 2021.
The answer could be found in death rates among the elderly.
Conflict between Eritrea and Tigray has long represented a destabilising fault line for Ethiopia as well as for the wider region.
Conflict between fruit-growers, the Mauritian government and conservationists has dragged on for years – it’s time for a new approach.
Extreme heatwaves aren’t systematically monitored in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. This leads to unnecessary and premature deaths which are often unrecorded.
There are arguments both for and against making vaccination compulsory.
Un estudio internacional auspiciado por la UNESCO acaba de revelar que tres de cada cuatro mujeres periodistas han sufrido acoso en el entorno digital por su trabajo y en un 20% de casos ese hostigamiento se ha traducido en violencia física.
An international survey of women media workers has found that in many cases, physical attacks appear to have followed online threats.
Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.
Because pledges alone won’t achieve net zero.
Driven by a desire to eliminate pain, some people have shockingly advocated taking the rest of nature with us.
Twenty years after the first China-Africa forum, the perceptions of ordinary African citizens still need to be better considered in government-to-government interactions.
Whatever approach is taken, the vaccine roll-out has to be fair and efficient.
There’s no guarantee future COVID-19 vaccines will work in the elderly. So we can consider vaccinating the young first to protect them. Here’s what we need to work out first.
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Oxford
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Researcher in Music, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in Climate Change Biology, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
