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Finding Home in War
The history—and limitations—of the international refugee regime. By Rana B. Khoury.
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An electromagnetic shock
For rich countries, prolonged loss of electricity is a low-probability event. But the scale of the potential impact is mind-concentrating.
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Sharp Rise in Flooding Ahead for World’s Poorest
Some of the world’s most vulnerable live in the tropics, where sea rise will cause a sharp rises in floods. By John Upton.
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Dinosaur asteroid hit ‘worst possible place’
How different Earth's history might have been if the space rock had struck a different location.
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Earth could hit 1.5 degrees of global warming in just nine years, scientists say
'The full impacts will take decades to play out, but once set in motion they could be hard to reverse.' By Ian Johnston.
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A Father Describes Saving His Daughter From U.S. Bombardment of Mosul
Four-year-old Awra Ali was nearly blinded in a U.S.-led coalition strike in Mosul. She’s among the unprecedented number of civilians harmed in strikes in March. By Anna Lekas Miller. (Apr. 16 2017)
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This real-life shipwreck from 200 years ago is worthy of Poldark
Of shipwreck, looting, drunken fighting on the beach and tragedy. By G_WIlkinson.
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Terror in Berlin: How the Attack Has Changed the Country
Terror attacks bring people together. That, at least, is what used to happen. But the attack in Berlin has followed a different script, with the gap between those content to wait for the facts and those eager to score political points now wider than ever before. A look back at 48 hours that changed the country. (Dec. 23, 2016)
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Anthrax in the Arctic
Why wolves are the least of a reindeer’s worries this Christmas. By India Bourke.
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Horrible Facebook Algorithm Accident Results In Exposure To New Ideas
Assuring users that the company’s entire team of engineers was working hard to make sure a glitch like this never happens again, Facebook executives confirmed during a press conference Tuesday that a horrible accident last night involving the website’s algorithm had resulted in thousands of users being exposed to new concepts. [Satire]
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Smog refugees flee Chinese cities as ‘airpocalypse’ blights half a billion
Thousands forced to escape to pollution-free regions as haze descends on the country’s northern industrial heartland. By Tom Phillips.
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Blowback from America’s Disastrous Policy in Yemen Will Be Profound
The cost to the Yemeni people and particularly to its young people is incalculable. By Michael Horton.
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Last Men Standing
They had the remarkable luck to survive AIDS, and the brutal misfortune to live on. By Erin Allday.
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The Soil Depletion Crisis
The spectre of irreversible climate change looms large on the horizon. If warming exceeds 2°C, the world will begin to hit ‘tipping points’… By Alex Richardson-Price.
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Katastrofa
To understand our histories we have to narrate our catastrophes. By Aleksandar Hemon.
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