Climate change is seeing more of us with mental health problems and harmful substance use. So we need to start planning now.
A registered nurse treats Dominic Rodriguez for a skin injury related to xylazine use in Philadelphia in May 2023. Treatment vans are allowed in the city, but not supervised injection sites.
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Teen drinking has not declined in the years since China banned underage drinking. Better enforcement and changes in attitudes to alcohol are needed.
Manifestation devant les bureaux du premier ministre à Tunis, le 16 février 2023, pour défendre la liberté d’expression et condamner la persécution des journalistes.
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La liberté d’expression, principal acquis de la révolution tunisienne de 2011, est aujourd’hui gravement menacée par le président Kaïs Saïed.
Tunisian journalists protest in front of the Prime Minister’s office in the capital Tunis on February 16, 2023, in defence of freedom of expression and against the persecution of journalists.
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Des chercheurs de l’université d’Oslo ont foré jusqu’au fond du glacier Kongsvegen. Découvrez pourquoi et comment ils écoutent la déstabilisation des glaciers arctiques.
Prisoners and staff share responsibility for taking care of the fish tank at the ‘Little Scandinavia’ housing unit in a Pennsylvania prison.
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Researchers from the University of Oslo have drilled to the bottom of the Kongsvegen glacier. Find out why and how they are listening to the destabilisation of Arctic glaciers: The MAMMAMIA project.
Increased diversity has eluded the tech industry.
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Most tech sector firms are stuck in a low- inclusion rut, and a disturbing set of firms are moving backward. A handful of firms, however, demonstrate that diversity now is possible.
One of the most popular default colour palettes, rainbow, can actually produce misleading information.
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It’s important for scientists to present their data in a accessible and comprehensible manner. However, the colour palettes commonly used to communicate information can also distort and misrepresent it.
Today the shoreline of Lake Malawi is open, not forested the way it was before ancient humans started modifying the landscape.
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Combining evidence from archaeology, geochronology and paleoenvironmental science, researchers identified how ancient humans by Lake Malawi were the first to substantially modify their environment.
Workers at India’s biggest syringe manufacturer ramp up production in September 2020 in race to meet COVID-19 vaccine-driven demand.
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Mining is not just a physical engineering process. It requires social engineering as well.
Medical volunteers have been a common sight in African countries like Zambia since the colonial era.
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Green diesel may be intended to reduce emissions but it is not necessarily environmentally and socially sound.
Welcoming Senegal’s President Macky Sall at Sochi International Airport before the 2019 Russia-Africa Summit.
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