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Layers of rock provide a historical record of variations in the Earth’s orbit, revealing information about the planet’s climate billions of years ago.
Successful policy accomplishments are rarely considered newsworthy, but there are plenty of cases where government policy has improved our lives for the better.
There’s been a rise in partnerships, over the past 20 years, between private security companies and police units in Kenya
Women in Sudan have been resisting the controls placed on them for some time - by using their smart phones and social media to trade.
Great areas of rubbish – known as ‘garbage patches’ – are known to form in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, but not the southern Indian Ocean. Why is that?
Economic growth should be reimagined not only at the macro level, but also at the micro, business level. Social enterprises offer new, collaborative approaches to growth that maximize societal impact.
Smart roads in Africa could help reduce the impact of flooding and other disasters that affect rural communities.
A chance discovery of some kelp that floated for 20,000km before washing up on an Antarctic beach has opened up a new chapter in our understanding of the currents that swirl around the Southern Ocean.
Constructing large dams can provide much needed electricity for Myanmar. But this can also threaten the livelihoods of millions.
The Australian prime ministership has never been easy, but the most successful tenures have been those in which the person has matched the circumstances.
The future of our country depends on our youth. Many of our youth are immigrant students and we need to understand how to best support them so we can thrive as a nation.
New research shows it only takes a few countries to kick-start the kind of global transformation required to meet the Paris Agreement’s long-term goals.
Global average sea level has risen by about 17 cm between 1900 and 2005, but we didn’t know how much of that was due to us, until now.
Alfred Deakin and his contemporaries invented the Australian prime ministership. But it was not settled as a platform for national leadership until John Curtin and Ben Chifley’s time.
The idea that there is a “land grab” taking place in developing nations began with the publication of a report, Seized!, by the NGO Grain. This rang an alarm bell about large-scale land acquisitions…
Overly positive, inflated praise such as “terrific!”, “you did incredibly well!”, “perfect!” is very common in western countries. At first glance this might not seem a bad thing; heaping praise can only…
The past is the key to the future. When snow falls on polar ice sheets, in Greenland and Antarctica for example, air is trapped between the snowflakes. Year after year, the snow compacts under its own…
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PhD Candidate in Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University
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Postdoctorante, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor of Governance, Utrecht University
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Assistant professor, Utrecht University
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Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa and Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations, Utrecht University
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Professor of Physics, Utrecht University
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Sustainability Lawyer, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor, Conflict Studies, Utrecht University
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Professor of Comparative Social Policy in relation to Social Inequalities, Utrecht University
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Climate Model Specialist, Utrecht University
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Teaching Fellow, Utrecht University
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Professor of Catalysts and Energy Storage Materials, Utrecht University
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate Physics, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Utrecht University
