Face au dérèglement climatique, doit-on réfléchir à deux fois avant d’avoir des enfants ? Deux chercheurs en philosophie éthique répondent à cette question qui taraude de plus en plus de potentiels parents.
In the heat of the summer, time can sometimes appear like it’s melting away. However, our body clock is there to keep track of the hours gone by.
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Nos corps sont capables de percevoir le temps grâce à nos horloges internes, dont sont également pourvus les autres êtres vivants avec lesquels nous interagissons.
Should we consider having children to be the same as overconsumption?
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Much of the debate regarding the environmental cost of childbearing is underpinned by one influential study. Given the global commitment to net zero, should this be revisited?
A high-tech expedition to sample the ocean under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf confirms what the earliest explorers thought: everywhere we look we find microbes, scavenging any energy source available.
The use of big data by companies, even when perfectly legal, can harm people.
Des survivants d'un glissement de terrain dans une école de fortune, le 15 novembre 2017, dans la région de Regent, dans la périphérie de Libreville, en Sierra Leone.
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Pourquoi tant d’enfants sont-ils toujours déscolarisés ? Et quels progrès ont déjà été accomplis ? Parité, exclusion et pauvreté sont au cœur des défis de l’éducation pour tous.
Survivor of the mudslide are seen attending school on November 15, 2017 at the Old Skool Camp, in the mountain town of Regent on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown.
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About 263 million children and youth worldwide are out of school. If some progress have been made, especially on school attendance, huge gaps remain on gender parity or equity in schooling choices.
Grace Mugabe est le symptôme d’un dilemme bien connu des États africains postcoloniaux : celui de la survie politique par le repli familial ou celui de l’ouverture sur un futur incertain.
Bolivia’s new mining bill has put the country on a knife-edge.
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The government of president Evo Morales has approved a new mining law for Bolivia. It received virtually no international news coverage, yet is proving highly divisive within the country. A previous version…
Humans and their primate cousins are well known for their intelligence and social abilities. You hear them called bird-brained, but birds have demonstrated a great deal of intelligence in many tasks. However…