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Solar energy even on cloudy days.

Good News

Solar energy despite clouds, and days off during menstruation

The two pieces of good news this month are about harnessing solar energy even on cloudy days and additional two paid days off for female employees experiencing menstrual pain.

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The Delta variant is reality: people waiting to get refilled oxygen cylinders for sick family members.

Multidimensional crises

Why we must not turn our backs on Afghanistan now

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by Ralph Achenbach
Afghan police officers in a poppy field in 2006.

Afghanistan

Stop blaming victims for western failure in Afghanistan

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by Hans Dembowski
Salesperson with skin-lightening product in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, in 2016.

Skin-whitening products

Why lighter complexions are associated with higher status

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by Mahwish Gul
Mahwish Gul
Endangered species: Himalayan snow leopard.

Biodiversity

Global warming and biodiversity loss mutually reinforcing

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by Lily Shrestha
by Bandana Shakya
Participants in an event to celebrate International Women’s Day in Kabul in 2018.

Islamism

Islamist ideology has softened a bit in Afghanistan

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by Rishikesh Thapa
Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus, gestures after receiving a vaccine shot in Cape Town in May.

Health care

Africans are learning lessons from other world regions

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by Benjamin M. Kagina
by Hans Dembowski
Afghan police officer and US soldier in Kabul in 2015.

Afghanistan

Afghans feel left alone in view of US withdrawal

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by Nawid Paigham
Cyclone shelters saved lives: rural women seeking refuge on 20 May 2020.

Climate impacts

To prevent death and destruction, accept climate science

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by Saleemul Huq
by Hans Dembowski
Devastating fires destroyed shelters and property in Rohingya refugee camps near the Myanmar after this comment was finalised. Investigations are still ongoing.

Human rights

Refugee suffering in Bay of Bengal and Mediterranean

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by Ridwanul Hoque
by Hans Dembowski
Children are curious and want to learn.

Schools

Eight-week module on plastic waste for school curricula

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by Mukta Martens