Year: 2017

A pied flycatcher. Credit: David Wheatcroft

Why Songbirds Are Born With Some Music Patterns Wired Into Their Genes

Janaki Lenin 19/06/2017

Through a complicated experiment, researchers unraveled how flycatcher chicks...

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Africa Could Help Feed the World – But Only if Its Fertile Land Doesn’t Disappear

Younouss Youn 19/06/2017

Two-thirds of the African continent is desert or drylands...

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How the Media Can Help Protect People With Albinism – a Tanzanian Case Study

Jean Burke 19/06/2017

Tanzania has one of the highest rates of albinism...

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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...