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The City 2050

As part of the Tomorrow’s Cities season the BBC is looking at how our lives will be changed by technology in the future. Delivery drones, farmscrapers and robo-taxis, is this what our future world looks like? Experts pred...
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Infographic: The Psychology of Poverty

Studies have shown that the levels of worry that go hand in hand when dealing with poverty are causing immense metal strain on those caught up in the poverty cycle. Money worries are creating a vicious  cycle in American soc...
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Human Rights

Infographic: The Ideals of Social Justice

Equal political rights, equal social rights and equal economic rights: The University of New England‘s infographic for their Masters Degree in Social Work reveals some alarming figures in American society. We should all h...
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Agent Orange: Will it Ever End?

Photographer Brian Driscoll’s “Will it Ever End” photo series tells the stories of those still affected by Agent Orange. Used by the U.S. during the Vietnam War with the aim of defoliating the dense jungle...
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WATCH: Strong to the Finish for Mongolia’s Children

Cut off by sharp mountains and the sweeping Gobi desert to the south Mongolia is an adventurers dream. The harsh yet mesmerising landscape and rich culture makes it one of the last places on earth that is a true test to the ski...
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WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum

Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
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Healing the Earth

Manila is in a pollution crisis. Currently home to 12 million people it is no surprise that the countries infrastructure is struggling to keep up with the population boom. This dense sprawling urban environment forces much of ...
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Holy Crap: How Haiti’s Human Waste is Being Used For the Better

The earthquake of 2010 devastated Haiti – since then it has perpetually struggled to re-build itself and for those that have chosen to keep an eye on this impoverished Island we have seen few success stories. Corruption,...
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WATCH: The True Cost of Coal

Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...
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