Ornamental craft made from palm leaves and pine cone in grass baskets are sold in Eswatini.
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Non-Timber Forest Products don’t often feature in discussions about poverty reduction and alleviation.
Ebola is a dreadful disease and is one of the deadliest infections known to medical science.
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Instability in the DRC and Ebola’s deadly properties is making it hard to contain the virus.
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Recent accusations of racism are at odds with the values of friendship, altruism and courage exemplified in his books. Was Tolkien simply a product of his time?
Modern slaves are not kept in literal chains, but this does not justify being oblivious to it. Consumers should care about how a product is made.
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Hidden slavery is a growing global problem but we continue to turn a blind eye and embrace a seemingly insatiable demand for fast, cheap goods and services.
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The education system needs an urgent re-think to give children from disadvantaged backgrounds a better chance in life.
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The system of welfare conditionality that underpins Universal Credit is ineffective at moving people off social security and into work.
Does your habit affect your daily life? Have you had to seek medical attention?
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Body-focused repetitive behaviours are related to obsessive compulsive disorder. You can stop the picking, pulling and biting.
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New research into beetles shows larvae are stronger and grow better when raised by two parents working together than a single parent working alone.
Pygmies in the Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve, Central African Republic.
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Somewhere along our evolutionary path, we lost the ability to defend against hepatitis C. But not all humans lost this ability.
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Using lasers to trap and move particles changed the way we’re able to study microscopic life.
Are we clear?
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You think you’re receiving tablets of stone, but really they’re more like custard.
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Scotland’s commitment to providing all students with free monthly supplies is showing the world how period poverty can be tackled.
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If you think first past the post or the alternative vote can sort this out, dream on.
Mombasa passenger station using Chinese-built and funded trains.
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The Belt and Road Initiative will not be starting entirely from scratch. China has already invested heavily in several African railways.
A community built tree nursery in Chikwawa District, Malawi is one example of sustainability in action.
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Without contextual knowledge, education and adaptation, foreign or imposed practices or resources cause new sets of problems.
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Scientists have used ‘tree rings’ in coral to identify centuries of stress.
Listening and learning during a Sustainable Futures in Action meeting in Kampala, Uganda.
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Without change, the trajectory of growth and development in the world will remain consistent with that of the past 80 years.
Scotland’s fruitpicking industry relies on migrant labour.
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Like many other parts of the UK, Scotland faces problems in attracting a migrant workforce that is crucial to the country’s future prosperity.
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The best team to lift the trophy was Brazil’s star-studded 1970 team.
The distinctive fan-shaped roof of the O2 venue, caved in during the fire that also destroyed Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building.
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The loss of a one-time panorama building, reminds us how these 360° viewing experiences transformed the way people saw the world.