Seagulls have no qualms about sifting through dumps for scraps. But this buffet comes at a cost, filling their stomachs with plastic, glass, metal and even building materials.
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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed needs to strike a balance between forgiveness and justice.
Most parents try to teach their children to feel grateful. Now, some therapists and doctors are encouraging people to focus on gratitude, as studies show that gratitude can be good for health.
The tobacco industry in Indonesia can still advertise cigarettes on television, radio and billboards. Now it’s using popular social media channels too.
The effect is much stronger in women than men.
A “lack of evidence” didn’t help investigators find any cause for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, but a report recommends further changes to try to prevent such accidents happening again.
August 1, 2018 is ‘Earth Overshoot Day,’ a date coined by the nonprofit Global Footprint Network to publicize overuse of Earth’s resources. But their estimates actually understate the problem.
The free movement of people between African countries could facilitate economic development.
Pakistan’s new leader has been battling to get into office for years.
The surrogacy industry needs international regulation to stop the exploitation of women’s bodies.
Madrasas, or Islam-centered schools, have long spread knowledge and literacy throughout the Muslim world. However, can they prepare students for today’s tech-based economies?
By using her public profile to suggest bias in drug-testing, Williams is calling into question the integrity of those tasked with the role of monitoring ‘clean sport’.
Images of the aftermath of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy dam collapse in Laos went around the world. But many other dam projects harm locals and the environment in less visible ways.
Reham and her family are among an estimated 1.5m Syrian refugees living in limbo in Lebanon.
Almost 30 years ago the world responded to the realisation that our ozone layer was in trouble. The resulting Montreal Protocol was a rare example of global cooperation, but there’s no room for complacency.
Donald Trump is eroding American diplomacy and what’s known as soft power. Here’s how that may result in a new world order.
The exclusion of scholars based in the global South undermines their work.
A crate digger essentially builds a personal library of sonic texts that often can’t be found on the internet or in official archives.
Zimbabweans face a complicated array of choices at the polls.
‘Fake news’ is a meaningless term that is used for anti-democratic propaganda. We should all stop using it.
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