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In 2025, let’s make it game on – not game over – for our precious natural world
It’s just past midnight in the cool, ancient forests of Tasmania
Guide to the classics: written more than 2000 years ago, Cicero’s On Old Age debunks stereotypes that persist today
As the New Year festivities fade, each January reminds us of the passage of time
Interactive: What Earth’s 4.54 billion-year history would look like in a single year
As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth’s history
How to stay safe in a New Year’s Eve crowd
December 31 brings masses of people together to usher in the new year
Transform the daily grind to make life more interesting – a philosopher shares 3 strategies to help you attain the good life
Imagine it’s Monday morning, too cold and too dark, but once that alarm goes off,...
Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world
Climate and environmental protest is being criminalised and repressed around the...
Europe’s microstates: the medieval monarchies that survive in our midst
These states have existed since the medieval period and their tiny size has enabled...
The secret world of plants living in our limestone pavements
Anyone out winter walking in the Yorkshire dales will probably be familiar with...
The world’s most bizarre secret weapons: how pigeons, cats, whales and even robotic catfish have acted as spies through the ages
The death of a spy is rarely newsworthy, due to the secrecy surrounding it
3D-printed guns, like the one allegedly used to kill a health care CEO, are a growing threat in the US and around the world
Arrests and seizures connected to 3D-printed guns are escalating quickly
Three years on, China-Laos Railway keeps unleashing vitality
On Dec. 3, the China-Laos Railway embraced a new chapter in its historic journey...
China's largest desert fully encircled with green belt
The Taklimakan Desert, the largest desert in China, has been completely encircled...
Mining gold of music: eternal passion of Chinese 99-year-old conductor
In July this year, the Shanghai Oriental Art Center (SHOAC) Citizens' Concert celebrated...
The global significance of China's poverty alleviation theories and practices
China's story of poverty alleviation, one about lifting 800 million people out of...
Reel resistance: Netflix’s removal of Palestinian films adds to the erasure of Palestine
There is a long history of the erasure of Palestine
‘All the destruction Israel has created in Gaza is nothing, if we remain firm on our land’, says Nakba survivor
Sitting in the corner of the tent trembling in the cold winter weather with cracks...