Month: June 2017

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How World Cities Moving Forward on Climate Change Leave the US President Behind

Nandan Sharalaya 18/06/2017

After Trump's withdrawal from the Paris agreement, powerful US...

Residential apartments are seen next to the dried-up Ratanpura lake on the outskirts of Ahmedabad

Indian Wells Are Drying up at an Alarming Rate

Asit K. Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada and Udisha Saklani 17/06/2017

Hit by weak monsoons, inadequate infrastructure and catastrophically poor...

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‘How I Learned to Live With Multiple Personalities’

Emma Young 17/06/2017

What happens when dissociative identity disorder makes you lose...

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How Odisha’s Forest Project Led to Collapse of Grassroots Conservation Movements

Rana Roy 16/06/2017

With the villagers in the Deogarh district losing autonomy...

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Does Language Alter How We Perceive Time?

Panos Athanasopoulos 16/06/2017

Learning languages rewires the brain and changes how we...

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Politics Over Narmada, Once Again

Medha Patkar 15/06/2017

For those who have fought over the years, it...

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Long-Term Daily Aspirin Use Linked to Higher Risk of Bleeding in Adults Over 75

K.S. Parthasarathy 14/06/2017

"Our findings raise questions about the balance of risk...