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The beginning of February saw the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which marks another day of tolerance towards intersex FGM. While we in the intersex…
February 13, 2013Read More
The Republic of Korea has announced that it will not go ahead with a lethal scientific whaling program. The policy decision was announced in a circular released by the International…
January 10, 2013Read More
The rural fire service in New South Wales, Australia, will be receiving assistance from the Australian Defence Force this week after a special emergency directive was activated. The COMDISPLAN was…
January 9, 2013Read More
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has warned that winds of up to 185kmph will occur at 1800 UTC on Monday 29th October 2012 as Hurricane Sandy sweeps the East…
October 29, 2012Read More
The rate of elephant poaching in Africa is soaring as elephants are brutally slaughtered to feed a rising demand for ivory products, fueled largely by the growing disposable income of…
October 26, 2012Read More
Measures to control the spread of zebra chip disease should focus on the tomato / potato psyllid rather than preventing the export of fresh and seed potatoes, argues Dr. Munyaneza…
October 26, 2012Read More
Professor John Duncan, author of “How Intelligence Happens” and Assistant Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, UK, explains how our thoughts are processed in the…
July 2, 2012Read More
The impact of war and terrorism on children has been the focus of a growing number of studies worldwide. Questions have been raised about children’s vulnerability to the stress that…
May 24, 2012Read More
The incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in British cattle has been increasing since the 1980s, despite a program of testing cattle and slaughtering those showing evidence of exposure to the…
March 1, 2012Read More
Tony Juniper, Special Adviser to the Prince of Wales Charities’ International Sustainability Unit, on fish stocks and sustainable fisheries. With the world’s fish stocks showing ever more serious signs of…
February 27, 2012Read More