Year: 2017

The main entrance to Manas national park. Credit: Sougata Sinha Roy/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Are Conservation Organisations Complicit in Ethnic Discrimination?

Trishant Simlai and Raza Kazmi 13/11/2017

Answering this question with an example of blatantly racist...

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SC to Hear Plea to Curb Rising Pollution in Delhi-NCR

The fresh plea seeks direction to the Centre and...

Representational image. Credit: e-Magazine Art/Flickr CC BY 2.0

Time for Costly Medicine Monopolies to Go From TPP Trade Talks

Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson, Hazel Moir, Joel Lexchin, Ruth Lopert 13/11/2017

The latest plan to get the controversial trade deal...

FILE PHOTO: Steam billows from the cooling towers of Jaenschwalde coal power station near Cottbus

German Coal Mining Could End by 2030s, Says Merkel’s Coalition Negotiator

Karl Mathiesen, Climate Home News 12/11/2017

Leader of North Rhine-Westphalia, who is leading the Christian...

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Answering the Question That Won Me the Ig Nobel Prize: Are Cats Liquid?

Marc-Antoine Fardin 12/11/2017

At the centre of the definition of a liquid...

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Celebrating Sharadchandra Shrikhande, the Mathematician Who Disproved Euler

Nithyanand Rao 12/11/2017

Fifty-eight years ago, mathematician Shrikhande, along with his mentor...

A flower of the plant Aristolochia indica. Credit: ChanduBandi/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Substance in Birthwort Plant, Staple of Herbal Medicine, Linked to Liver Cancer

Sarah Iqbal 12/11/2017

As a mutagen, aristolochic acid is more potent than...