Year: 2017

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Why Crabs and Lobsters Shouldn’t Be Boiled Alive

Jonathan Birch 04/11/2017

Just because there is no evidence yet that crustaceans...

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Ghost Centres, Profit-Making Aims Mar Rajasthan’s Privatisation of Primary Healthcare

Rakhee Roytalukdar 04/11/2017

A study by an NGO a year after certain...

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Ecosan Toilets Are Making It Safer for Rural Bihar’s Women to Defecate During Floods

Nidhi Jamwal 04/11/2017

Floods often bring poisonous snakes along with the waters...

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Astro Institute Bullying Case Offers Peek Into Fraught Ties Between PhD Students, Supervisors

Vasudevan Mukunth 04/11/2017

A professor has been accused of bullying her students....

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is running for reelection in the northeastern-most state of Australia. Credit: Annastacia Palaszczuk/Twitter

Premier of Australia’s Queensland Promises to Veto Adani Coal Mine Funding

Adam Morton and Karl Mathiesen, Climate Home News 04/11/2017

Annastacia Palaszczuk reversed her previous support for Gautam Adani’s...

A photo of Pongo tapanuliensis, identified as a new species of orangutan is shown, found on the Indonesian island of Sumatra where a small population inhabit its Batag Toru forest. Credit: Andrew Walmsley/Handout via Reuters

A New, Endangered Species of Orangutan Found in Indonesia

Anthony B. Rylands, Gabriella Fredriksson, Russell A. Mittermeier and Serge Wich 03/11/2017

The total remaining population of the newly-discovered Tapanuli orangutan...

A handpump sticks out of the water in a flooded street in Chennai, 2008. Credit: mckaysavage/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

When a Polluted River Floods, the Groundwater Becomes Polluted Too

Bhavya Khullar 03/11/2017

“Sewage must have washed off with flood water, which...