Protesting in Hong Kong now comes with hugely higher stakes.
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Niki JP Alsford, University of Central Lancashire; Ed Griffith, University of Central Lancashire
China is shifting the parameters on a number of territorial disputes with its neighbours.
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Politics + Society
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Modesta Tochi Alozie, University of Sheffield
Chronic pollution has robbed many young Nigerians of a stable future in the place where they grew up.
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Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Thomas Jefferson University
Rejected by their countries but seen as outsiders in the West, queer and trans Muslims often live in limbo. The mental health costs of alienation can be severe, says a scholar of Islam and sexuality.
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Science + Technology
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Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
A new country launches a mission to Mars. A space expert explains what this means for the Middle East and the African continent.
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Vanessa Forti, United Nations University
Demand for electric and electronic products is fuelling the meteoric rise in e-waste.
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Health + Medicine
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Ron Fricker, Virginia Tech
The COVID-19 death toll in the US is now over 130,000. What do 130,000 fatalities look like? A biostatistician provides some perspective.
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Andrew Lakoff, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The WHO is a health agency, not a political one. Yet political leaders have often criticized it. Still, the move by the US to pull out from the organization is unprecedented.
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