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Our research shows how a large scale renewable energy project can be plagued by many of the same troubling impacts on local communities as oil and extractive industries.
The Indian government’s recent criminalisation of instant ‘triple-talaq’ divorce has stoked dispute among the very people it purports to protect: Muslim women.
Ekspektasi yang diberikan guru kepada siswanya penting untuk menjaga motivasi dan meningkatkan potensi akademik. Meski demikian, ekspektasi yang berlebihan dapat berakibat buruk bagi sebagian siswa.
Melupakan adalah hal yang bermanfaat bagi otak manusia. Namun internet telah membuat kita lebih sulit untuk melupakan ingatan menyakitkan dan bermasalah.
A new IPCC report has called for radical changes in food production to avoid catastrophic climate change. Rice-fish farming and mixed crops could help.
Realising the silence of outer space was what made us appreciate our precarious position down on this pale blue dot – so beginning our obsession with extinction.
The idea of human-animal hybrids can raise a lot of questions and it’s easy to feel they are “unnatural” because they violate the boundaries between species.
Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford