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Maybe Hollywood Does Get It: A Year In Climate Change Cinema
In The Atlantic, Noah Gittell recently argued that Hollywood is dropping the ball on climate change. Pointing out the lack of explicit acknowledgement in Interstellar, Gittell went on to suggest that Hollywood keeps getting t...
Climate Change Vulnerability in the ‘South’
Africa has contributed the least to global warming among the seven continents, but it is the worst affected by climate change effects and this is projected to get even worse in the future. Adaptation to climate change has faced...
World Conference On Youth 2014 In Colombo
In, 2000 when world leaders met in New York to sign the Millennium Declaration which enshrined the Millennium Development Goals, I was only eight years old. My generation grew up and came of age with the MDGs. Little did I know...
Operation Iraqi Freedom: What We Have Learned in 10 Years?
Ten years ago today, on March 19 2003, the USA and its allies launched the second Iraq war in a bid to radically change the face of the region. To this day, after the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the complete withd...
Banning Khat: What Did The UK Learn From The War On Drugs?
A year ago, in January 2013, the UK government announced its intention to ban khat, a herbal stimulant which is mainly produced in the Horn of Africa and is very popular amongst African communities across the world. The plant, ...
Daily News Roundup – 9 October 2012
North America US scientists aim to make human sperm from stem cells US researchers say they will redouble their efforts to create human sperm from stem cells following the success of a Japanese study involving mice. ...
