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Mothering while Black: To protect our children, we draw on traditions of refusal
Black mothers insist, with grit and love, on ensuring our children reach the futures they deserve.
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Quartz countertops are driving a public health crisis in the US – 2 occupational health experts explain the surge of lung transplants and lawsuits
Workers are facing a preventable and incurable lung disease from a material being used to renovate kitchens in millions of American homes.
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NASA announces its Artemis III crew, which will test important equipment and systems in Earth orbit and is testing public opinion
The Artemis program’s timeline and architecture has changed over the past year, so Artemis III will not land on the lunar surface.
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England’s sewage spills: why citizen scientists want to test for pollution themselves
Citizens are taking water testing into their own hands as sewage spills in rivers and on beaches increasingly get reported.
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Four reasons electric vehicle targets shouldn’t be weakened
A target reduction from 80% to 50% or 60% takes pressure off government and manufacturers to address them.
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Is Australia’s social media ban for under 16s working?
Adolescent health expert Susan Sawyer talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast, six months on from Australia’s social media ban for under 16-year-olds.
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How local communities are challenging Big Tech data centers’ noise, pollution and rising electricity bills
Local needs, political tensions and corporate power all get involved in the democratic processes by which Americans govern their communities.
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Americans keep voting for scandal-prone candidates because they just don’t want the other party to win
Polarization and negative partisanship have lowered the standards for whom Americans are willing to support.
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How LGBTQ employees at Kodak risked their careers to build a safer, more inclusive workplace
There was a time when you could be fired from your job for being gay. It took LGBTQ employees at companies like Kodak to challenge workplace discrimination and transform corporate culture.
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Why US presidents end up cursing Benjamin Netanyahu
The Israeli prime minister has a long history of irritating American leaders.
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‘You’re a liar! You’re a liar!’ NZ foreign minister Peters slams Gaza flotilla torture survivor in Parliament
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle Something significant and revelatory just happened in the New Zealand Parliament. I was present at today’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee meeting when things kicked off between the Foreign Minister and humanitarian aid activist Hāhona Ormsby, one of the New Zealanders who survived kidnapping and beatings by Israeli forces in May.
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What’s in the US-Iran peace deal? A lot of concessions and empty promises from Trump, in return for little
There is nothing in the agreement that is positive for the US and did not already exist before the war.