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How Canada’s immigration caps are trapping its own graduate students

Canada’s shifting study permit caps, post-graduation work permit rules and closure of graduate-focused immigration streams are reshaping pathways to permanent residence for international graduates. Policy reform can address these dynamics and provide clearer, more stable pathways that retain their talent and support their sense of belonging.

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3 African wild dogs travelled over 4,000km to find mates – why that’s good news for the endangered species

In 2021, a three-year-old female African wild dog spent a year travelling more than 2,300 kilometres across southern Africa. She climbed in and out of the Rift Valley in Zambia, swimming rivers, crossing major highways, and slipping past towns before crossing the Zambian border into Mozambique, then on to the…

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Sacred springs of South Africa: pure waters or polluted? We found tiny bits of plastic in the samples we tested

Across South Africa, natural springs are more than sources of freshwater. Some are places of healing, spiritual cleansing and rituals, where communities collect water and maintain longstanding cultural connections with the environment. For example, during cleansing rituals, people bathe in or collect spring water as a way of seeking spiritual…

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Spekboom is nutritious, water-wise and edible – so why aren’t more South Africans eating it?

Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) is an easy-to-grow succulent shrub, small tree, or hedge.

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Pardoned by Trump and escaping charges at home, ex-Honduran leader’s case shows a nation’s struggle for sovereignty

A Honduran judge on Sept. 1, 2026, dismissed a sprawling money-laundering and fraud case against the country’s former president, Juan Orlando Hernández. It was the latest stroke of good fortune for Hernández.

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Even the Buddha experienced challenges with meditation: Historical texts reveal its potential downsides

As a scholar of “Buddhist medicine,” I have studied the connections between Buddhism and well-being since the late 1990s. During the course of that research, I would periodically run into sources claiming that meditation could sometimes have unexpected or adverse health effects. When I discovered in 2020 that psychologists were…

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Why an overactive immune system attacks the bodies of people with lupus but still leaves them vulnerable to infection

Despite having an overactive immune system, people with lupus may still struggle to fight bacterial infections. My team and I found that this paradox may be because chronic inflammation pushes their immune cells toward the wrong kind of response.

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How the American revolt against Flock cameras mirrors the Boston Tea Party of 1773

A grassroots revolt against automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, has gained momentum across the United States.

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Lockdown or active shooter drill? The distinction matters for children’s safety and well-being

School shooting preparedness drills have been a routine though uncomfortable part of the back-to-school experience. Since the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, various kinds of preparedness drills have been mandatory in most schools.

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8 rules to help you understand what campaign finance reporting reveals about influence and support – or doesn’t

News stories about campaign finance are frequent in any election season, and this year is no exception.

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Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change

Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country’s vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides

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Proposed curriculum in Northern Ireland would restrict children’s language learning

Northern Ireland is in the process of establishing a new curriculum for primary and secondary education. The proposed Northern Ireland Curriculum Framework 2028, TransformED – currently under consultation – sets out a new, knowledge-rich curriculum.

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Earthshot and the science of positive tipping points: how environmental progress can become unstoppable

It must be tough being a judge on the world’s most prestigious environmental prize: imagine having to choose between an ingenious machine that removes microplastics from a river in Europe, or a company in East Africa that sells clean cookstoves through affordable weekly instalments.

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Wendell Berry spent his life farming and writing – his legacy is an ethic of care for the natural world

The American farmer, novelist and poet Wendell Berry, died on August 31 2026, aged 92. Berry farmed in Port Royal, in his native Kentucky, for over 40 years. Through his writing and his farming, Berry emphasised the importance of both community and care for the planet, advocating for small-scale agriculture…

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Hanson’s personal attacks and offensive comments are straight out of the populist playbook. But they come with risks

The latest round of media attention on One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has focused on a string of controversial comments she has made, two of which were very personal in nature, and all of which have caused offence in some way.

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The US says it has launched ‘space control weapons’. It plays into the hands of its enemies

US Air Force Secretary Troy Meink this week announced the United States has deployed what he called “on-orbit space control weapons”.

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The Jim Henson Company reminds us even the synthetic can be joyous and beautiful and beloved

And after arriving at Make, Believe, Magic: The Worlds of The Jim Henson Company at QAGOMA, I’ll admit, I was a little disappointed.

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The Houthis have further tightened their grip on the Red Sea. Here’s what it could mean for the world

In recent days, the Houthi rebels in Yemen have moved with lightning speed along the Red Sea coast, taking control of the vital port of Mocha and strategic islands in the Red Sea near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

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Climate change is putting the squeeze on the world’s grapegrowers: new research

This year, the European summer has been sweltering. It is unprecedented in many ways, marked by extreme heat, drought and record-breaking fires. Across the continent, fires have consumed hundreds of homes and demanded the evacuation of thousands of people.

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Is the nuclear non-proliferation pact a model for regulating runaway AI?

The potential existential threat of artificial intelligence has leapt into the headlines after a departing safety researcher at AI corporation Anthropic posted on social media he believed there was more than a one-in-ten chance AI could kill everyone.

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Naomi Klein’s new book calls out end times fascism. What is this – and what’s the role of big tech?

“A moment of reckoning has arrived for the West,” reads a recent recruitment ad for Palantir, a Silicon Valley firm that increasingly provides data-driven “intelligence” for intelligence, police and military agencies – as well as blue-chip corporations and non-profits. “On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield,”…

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Should schools ban students from doing cartwheels?

Some Melbourne primary schools are reportedly restricting cartwheels and handstands after injuries.

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Do pimple patches actually work? Here’s what the science says

You’re standing in the skincare aisle and pimple patches are everywhere – clear ones, flesh-coloured ones, stars, hearts. They promise to flatten a pimple overnight.

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The government might strip some asylum seekers of their work rights. Here’s why it shouldn’t

Migration is never far from the headlines, but it’s particularly topical this week in the wake of One Nation announcing its policy on the subject.

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Russian team ‘misused’ Claude AI to train a killer drone on scraped Ukrainian war footage

A new threat intelligence report from the AI company Anthropic has revealed that a Russian team scraped Ukrainian combat videos to train an autonomous “kamikaze” drone to choose its own targets and destroy them.

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