It doesn’t have to be so bad.
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Everything you need to know to ace self-isolation.
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It’s hell to lose your sense of smell.
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A new study revealed that indigenous territories store more than half the carbon in the Amazon forest.
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The global warming potential of different greenhouse gases is often poorly understood, distorting which are the biggest concern.
HPV vaccine has reduced pre-cancerous cervical disease in women by 71%.
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Following the success of the cervical cancer vaccine, new work on links between viruses and cancers raises promising possibilities.
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Wildlife trade is a threat to human health.
Saddam Hussein: on trial in 2006 in Baghdad.
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A short history of modern Iran-Iraq relations.
These days, the river barely makes it to its mouth in the Dead Sea.
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The holy river is used and abused so much that it barely reaches the Dead Sea these days.
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To justify a push towards requiring ID to vote, some paint a picture of chaos and deception that is very far from reality.
Coal emissions are falling, but gas and coal use are strongly rising around the world.
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Carbon emissions will hit a record high for the second year in a row, but there is a small silver lining: the rate of emissions growth has slowed dramatically.
A woman of the Pa'O tribe waits for a boat at Nang Pan market by Inle Lake, eastern Shan State of Myanmar.
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Climate change will affect everyone, but women will overwhelmingly bear the greatest burden.
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Should students get refunds during strike action? An education economist gives his thoughts.
The British Tribe Next Door.
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Critics who called the show featuring Scarlett Moffatt ‘racist’ need to look at their own prejudices.
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Governments around the world are banning e-cigarettes. This is very bad news for public health.
Miners working at Bersham Colliery near Wrexham in Wales, 1960.
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People who moved away from Britain’s coal-mining areas have genetic profiles linked to higher educational attainment and better health than those who stayed.
Joachim Phoenix as the title role in the Warner Bros. Pictures film Joker.
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The use of a song written by a convicted sex offender in the film Joker has caused controversy over royalty payments.
Copenhagen hosts the C40.
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Cities represent an increasingly powerful force in global politics – but they’re still constrained by the agendas of slow-acting states.
Why has antidepressant use doubled?
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In two decades, the amount of antidepressants being prescribed jumped from 4% to 11%.
Take it to the courts.
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Stereotypes that paint landlords as “bad” and tenants as “good”, and pit the two groups against each other, are actually holding back progress.
Japanese Prime Minister’s Cabinet reshuffle reveals his strategy for final two years in office.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet reshuffle is an exercise in illusion. Yet it reveals some unwelcome truths about his political present - and future.