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- The New UN Climate Report: We’re Screwed August 20, 2019
- Paul Kingsnorth, “Confessions Of Recovering Environmentalist”, “Beast” – YouTube August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – The Inquiry, Can you reduce Central American migration? August 20, 2019
- Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Respond to Israel Travel Ban August 20, 2019
- Twitter & Facebook Remove China-Linked Accounts over Hong Kong Protest Misinformation August 20, 2019
- Fears of Renewed Arms Race as U.S. Tests Ground Missile and Questions Remain over Russian Nuclear Accident Blast August 20, 2019
- Sixth Meeting of the National Space Council August 20, 2019
- Are black Americans the true “founding fathers’? August 20, 2019
- Researchers study Greenland’s shrinking glaciers August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – Science in Action, Analysing the European heatwave August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – Science in Action, Is climate change driving Europe’s current heatwave? August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – Science in Action, South Asia heatwave and climate change August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – Science in Action, Keeping tabs on nuclear weapons August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – Science in Action, The snowball effect of Arctic fires August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – The Inquiry, Can you reduce Central American migration? August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – The Food Chain – Clips August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – The Food Chain, Food under siege August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – CrowdScience, Global infertility – could The Handmaid’s Tale become reality? August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – World Update, UN says plant-based diet can fight climate change August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – World Update, Sea level rise could be larger than expected August 20, 2019
- BBC World Service – Business Matters, Twitter removes controversial Hong Kong accounts August 20, 2019
- Stranded migrant rescue ship Open Arms refuses to leave Italian waters August 20, 2019
- President Trump Tours Shell’s New Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex August 20, 2019
- Advertising climate change danger could be deemed partisan: election officials August 19, 2019
- $1.5B settlement approved for former students of Indian day schools August 19, 2019
- Hong Kong protests: Twitter and Facebook remove Chinese accounts – BBC News August 19, 2019
- Why an Extinction Event Could SAVE the Human Race? August 19, 2019
- Net Zero Conference 2019 August 19, 2019
- Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change? August 19, 2019
- Sustainable City | Fully Charged August 19, 2019
- How highways wrecked American cities August 19, 2019
- 7 principles for building better cities | Peter Calthorpe August 19, 2019
- Urbanization’s Cost in China August 19, 2019
- Urbanisation in China | The Economist August 19, 2019
- Oil and gas companies are facing major technological disruption August 19, 2019
- Transforming cities with technology | The Economist August 19, 2019
- THE FUTURE OF CITIES August 19, 2019
- Mapped: The World’s Largest Megacities by 2100 August 19, 2019
- Top 20 Megacities In The World 1950 to 2035 – World’s Largest Cities By Population August 19, 2019
- All Countries by Number of Nuclear Weapons (1945-2014) August 19, 2019
- Top 15 Countries by Military Spending (1914-2018) August 19, 2019
- Top 20 Largest Cities in The World 1500 to 2100 (History + Projection) August 19, 2019
- Top 20 Countries by Population (1950 to 2100) – The Most Populous Countries in The World August 19, 2019
- Top 20 Country GDP (PPP) History & Projection (1800-2040) August 19, 2019
- Annual CO₂ Emissions For The Largest Emitting Countries 1800-2017 (metric tons) August 19, 2019
- Why China Ended its One-Child Policy August 19, 2019
- Top 20 Country Total Young Population Ranking History (1960-2017) August 19, 2019
- What Countries Are Most Responsible For Global Warming? August 19, 2019
- Transforming food systems under a changing climate: technologies for food system transformation August 19, 2019
- Hong Kong Protests Spread Worldwide August 19, 2019
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Typhoon Lekima triggers landslides in eastern China
Guardian News Published on Aug 10, 2019 At least 18 people have been killed and 14 were missing in eastern China in a landslide triggered by a large typhoon, which caused widespread transport disruptions and the evacuation of more than … Continue reading
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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition: Martin Jacques
Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will … Continue reading
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Western reactions to Benin bronzes | Civilisations – BBC Two
BBC Published on Apr 10, 2018 https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ Programme website: http://bbc.in/2pqRjCx David Olusoga discusses Benin bronzes created from the 16th century in West Africa, and how these works of art now reside in the British Museum.
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Vicious heat wave sweeps western and central Europe
Published on Jun 26, 2019 Western Europe is expecting a potentially devastating heat wave that could reach temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In France, this heat wave is being compared to one it experienced almost 16 years ago when thousands … Continue reading
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“Water Is Life”: Midwestern Floods Threaten Indigenous Communities at Forefron t of Climate Crisis
Democracy Now! Published on Mar 22, 2019 As Nebraska and the U.S. Midwest recover from devastating climate change-fueled floods, we speak with Lakota historian Nick Estes on how two centuries of indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is life.” … Continue reading
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Baule: African Art, Western Eyes: Susan Mullin Vogel
The sculptures of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast have long been recognized in Europe and the United States as one of Africa’s most significant art traditions. The work of many modern artists – Amedeo Modigliani in particular – … Continue reading
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World): Robert J. Gordon
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented … Continue reading
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BBC – Future – How Western civilisation could collapse
By Rachel Nuwer 18 April 2017 This story is featured in BBC Future’s “Best of 2017” collection. Discover more of our picks. The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept … Continue reading
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