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Disabled people face greater climate change risks – and they can also help NZ adapt

The impacts of a changing climate – from unprecedented rainfall and landslides to heatwaves fuelled by warming seas – are increasingly being felt across New Zealand.

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Why AI wants you to buy more – and mindfulness could help you buy less

You search online for a pair of trainers. Minutes later, similar shoes appear on social media feeds. A shopping site offers a limited-time discount and suggests a matching jacket. This is no longer just an advert shown to millions of people. Increasingly, artificial intelligence is helping decide not only what…

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Indigenous communities aren’t rejecting tourism – they just want to shape it themselves

Imagine the scene: tourists riding in a jeep through Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela. With their cameras at the ready, they listen to stories of gang violence and gawp at people’s homes, believing they are learning about the “real” Rio beyond the glamorous beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema.

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Once-weekly HIV pill as effective as daily dose, research shows

Around 78% of people who are living with HIV take a daily pill to manage their infection. These drugs work by preventing the HIV virus from multiplying.

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Inflation is slowing, but the cost of living story is more complicated

Inflation is often misunderstood as a force that makes everything more expensive. In reality, it’s a term economists use to describe a general increase in prices across the economy.

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Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature

American filmmaker George Lucas is one of the latest to indicate he’s open to AI in the movie industry.

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El pueblo indígena wounaan ha hecho frente a la tala ilegal de palo de rosa y a siglos de explotación con sabiduría y belleza

Durante milenios, el pueblo wounaan, que habita en algunas zonas de lo que hoy son Panamá y Colombia, ha tallado y esculpido diversos tipos de madera. El palo de rosa cocobolo, Dalbergia retusa, es especialmente apreciado para la talla de bastones ceremoniales utilizados en la medicina tradicional y en el…

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Drought and the war in Ukraine changed what families in Kenya could afford to eat – research tracked food and cooking gas use

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 had an almost immediate impact on global energy markets and the movement of food around the world. During the first year of the conflict, international crude oil and natural gas prices rose sharply. Disruptions to exports of wheat, maize, sunflower oil and fertilisers…

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Amílcar Cabral linked soil health to human freedom – the Guinea-Bissau leader’s ideas matter more than ever today

Up to 80% of Africa’s cultivated land is now degraded by intensive farming and climate change. Together with development economist Carlos Lopes and earth politics researcher Lesley Green, environmental researcher Anselmo Matusse recently co-edited a book of translations of agronomist and liberation leader Amílcar Cabral’s writings on farming and rural…

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Burundi refugees talk about life in South Africa after their long journey: hope and heartbreak side by side

Over 250,000 people were registered as asylum seekers and refugees – people displaced by force – in South Africa in 2024. About 4% of them were from Burundi, some 3,000km away.

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Is hemp a thirsty crop? New research measures just how much water cannabis farming can use

In South Africa, it’s been legal for several years for people to grow hemp (a type of Cannabis sativa with very low levels of the psychoactive compound THC), for personal use following changes to the law. There’s also been a growing interest in its medicinal and industrial potential for clothing,…

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Math gaps between Ontario kids start in kindergarten — and often persist through Grade 9

When people think about the roots of a child’s struggles in math class, they may picture a tough teacher, a missed unit or a sudden loss of confidence around fractions. Our new study suggests we should be looking much earlier, at kindergarten, or even before.

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Ceuta and Melilla: how the colonial legacies of these cities have shaped migration in the region

Ceuta, a small Spanish enclave on the Moroccan mainland, was unprepared for the arrival of more than 70,000 undocumented migrants on July 30. They arrived mostly by sea, from Morocco via the Tarajal breakwaters and its shoreline.

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India and Pakistan’s 79-year rivalry has made the dangerous move into space

India and Pakistan fought an intense four-day war in May 2025. But while the media narrative was dominated by fighter jets, drones and missiles, the most consequential contest unfolded in orbit a few hundred kilometres up.

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‘They walk among us.’ The White House’s Aliens page and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants

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Edinburgh festival: how the city’s residents could benefit after the crowds leave

Edinburgh Festival Fringe includes more than 3,600 shows this year. The world’s largest arts festival, once again transforming Scotland’s capital into a global stage. But this year, something else opened first.

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Smart clothes will soon be on sale. But regulations are needed to prevent a new waste mountain

When you think of advanced futuristic clothing, what comes to mind?

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Monkeys keep pets too – animal specialist on the world of interspecies friendship

The first time I saw it, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at. A northern white-cheeked gibbon at Shanghai Zoo was holding and caressing a mouse that had wandered into its enclosure. It wasn’t trying to eat it or chase it away. Instead, the gibbon treated the tiny…

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Children and adults cope with extreme heat differently, but are kids really at greater risk?

In Canada, Europe and around the world, temperatures are soaring and heat warnings are rampant. We are reminded to stay out of the sun and stay hydrated, and in extreme conditions, stay indoors.

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Europe’s stone age hunters made sea voyages to Malta – thousands of years before evidence of sails

The ability to cross oceans has long been a marker of human endeavour, but when did the seas change from being barriers to movement into the maritime highways we know today?

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Why being born helpless may be one of humanity’s greatest strengths

Babies start out life helpless and stay that way for a long time. They cannot walk, feed themselves or survive without an adult’s continued care. Our dependency timeline has no clear parallel elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

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White parents who tell their kids that race doesn’t matter are ignoring the long shadow of racism

“Look around.”

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Climate change may be making us lonelier: How heat waves and extreme weather disrupt social connections everyone relies on

Severe storms, heat waves and wildfires can shut down the social life of a community, flooding out festivals, canceling community events and keeping people indoors.

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Wounaan Indigenous people have opposed illegal rosewood logging and centuries of exploitation with wisdom and beauty

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SpaceX aims to use rockets to quickly transport cargo across the Earth and into orbit – moves that would expand the global cargo system

You might think about rockets as powerful vehicles that blast astronaut crews and robotic missions off into space. But what if they could be used to send cargo from one side of the Earth to the other, in a fraction of the time it would take a plane? The company…

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