Breast cancer in China is increasing at a rate of 3.5%, and is expected to continue that way for the next 20 years. So what’s driving this frightening new trend? Jin-Li Luo gives her expert analysis.
And, as you read this newsletter, you might be savouring a steaming cup of coffee to start your day. Enjoy it – for climate change is about to threaten the coffee industry, writes Dalhousie University’s Sylvain Charlebois. By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee won’t be arable, and the quality of coffee is expected to start declining soon.grow coffee won’t be arable, and the quality of coffee is expected to start declining soon.
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Jin-Li Luo, University of Leicester
Breast cancer rates in China are rising, and are expected to continue rising for the next three decades.
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Arts + Culture
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Robert Morrison, Queen's University, Ontario
John Lennon and Yoko Ono visited Canada on a peace mission: They met with leaders and asked difficult questions, relevant today. How do we effectively protest against social injustices and war?
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Michael Dunn, Uppsala University
Evolutionary biologists ask very similar questions about species to those asked by linguists about languages.
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Business + Economy
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Sylvain Charlebois, Dalhousie University
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.
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Robert Hoffmann, RMIT University; Adrian R. Camilleri, RMIT University
People aren't the perfectly rational, number-crunching risk-takers that traditional theory suggests. Research shows a whole variety of factors feed into risk-taking.
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Environment + Energy
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Julian Kirchherr, Utrecht University
Constructing large dams can provide much needed electricity for Myanmar. But this can also threaten the livelihoods of millions.
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Gilles Pison, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités
Will the African population inevitably quadruple by the end of the century? And what are the reasons for this extraordinary growth?
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Politics + Society
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Jessica Field, O.P. Jindal Global University
What effect does India's legal precariousness and lack of institutionalised support have on the ground? Most refugee groups have to rely on themselves.
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Jean Burke, Australian Catholic University
Singing, music, films and dances are crucial in promoting and protecting the human rights of Africans with albinism.
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Science + Technology
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Felix Georg Marx, Monash University; Erich Fitzgerald, Museums Victoria
Fossils of a whale thought to be found only in southern waters have been discovered at two sites in the northern hemisphere.
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