Northern fulmar.
Beth Clark
Some of the world’s most threatened birds are exposed to plastic pollution – even far out to sea.
Tourism hotspots like the Dominican Republic are no strangers to worker exploitation.
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Why some countries seem to benefit from tourism and others don’t.
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Ketone drinks are getting a lot of attention among sports people. Here’s what the evidence shows.
Is ‘drinkflation’ a thing?
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The cost of living crisis may have affected pricing for beer brands, helping brewers save money but it could also be good for people’s health.
Gendered society: many Sudanese women are forced to play traditional roles as homemakers.
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Sudan is riven by conflict and once again, women are the targets of the sexual violence that is rooted in the patriarchal nature of Sudanese society.
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Three promising new anti-ageing compounds have been found by artificial intelligence models.
Britain experiences hundreds of earthquakes each year.
Raffaele Bonadio
Variations in the thickness of tectonic plates may explain why Britain experiences many more earthquakes than neighbouring Ireland.
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A new study looks at all children hospitalised with a first recorded COVID infection in England from July 2020 to February 2022.
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Most of the carbon disturbed by trawls is unreactive and difficult to convert to CO₂.
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Students doing a “sandwich degree” can spend a year between their second and final years at university in employment.
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Creating a successful code of conduct requires commitment from organisations and the people that must abide by them.
Damselfish are finding it harder to detect predators.
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Some animals are finding it harder to detect chemicals they use to communicate.
Lord Pickles eyes up the opposition in the House of Lords.
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Boris Johnson’s controversial resignation honours list has prompted fresh debates around reforming the UK’s unelected upper house.
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Reports have indicated the artificial sweetener aspartame will be classified as ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’ by the WHO. Here’s what that means – and doesn’t mean.
A tsetse fly (Glossina sp) in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
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New research on what attracts blood-feasting flies to blue objects could help minimise the impacts of those insects on people and animals.
It’s not easy being a green investor.
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Most ESG funds track passive indices - this is where the power really lies in determining what is ESG.
We’ll need tens of thousands of new turbines if net-zero targets are to be met.
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The UK needs to use at least 7% of its available ocean space for offshore wind.
Making quality childcare more accessible will help generations of mothers.
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Childcare subsidies give mothers the choice to work and help reduce the earnings gap between mothers and fathers. In time, it may lead to greater acceptance of working mothers for future generations.
The results of an ŋgam dù consultation.
Suop Sylvestre
Ngam dù is a form of divination in which questions are asked of large spiders that live in holes in the ground. The results of spider divination can be used as evidence in Cameroon’s courts.
Zafar Khan, the former finance director, has been disqualified.
Former finance director Zafar Khan is the first of the Carillion directors to receive a punishment for his part in the collapse.