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In a world where we hear of a new environmental disaster every day, it’s nice to hear of something going right for an ecosystem somewhere. That’s the story from the Red Sea, where extreme conditions have protected mangroves from too much human interference. And a healthy mangrove population means protected coastlines, plentiful food and more carbon storage.
Meanwhile governments are standing up for the climate in the Pacific, citizens are organising in Central Europe
and intellectuals are resisting authoritarianism in Turkey.
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Hanan Almahasheer
Hanan Almahasheer, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mangroves are superheroes on both land and sea, storing carbon and providing protection for coasts.
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Wesley Morgan, The University of the South Pacific
As Australia looks to expand the coal industry at home, it's also ramping up regional diplomacy aimed at avoiding condemnation by those at the front line of climate change.
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Urban and social art at the first edition of ‘Neighbours’ festival in Katowice, in 2014.
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Dominika Polanska, Uppsala University; Galia Chimiak, Polish Academy of Sciences
As Poland faces more and more social divisions, citizen movements develop through informal activities to reinforce a sense of community and belonging.
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Thousands gather to protest against the Romanian government in the streets of Bucharest, February 6th.
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George Jiglau, Babes Bolyai University
Romania's ongoing protests against a bold move by the government to decriminalise corruption has highlighted greater social and political issues.
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A woman reacts after a blast in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, November 4, 2016.
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Çağla Aykaç, University of Geneva
Turkey's authoritarian regime has ruined the lives of many intellectuals and opponents of the regime. Resisting, even softly, is an act of survival.
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Agatha Christie, here with husband Colonel Archibald Christie (left) and friends in 1922. Many stories she wrote were inspired by travels.
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Arup K Chatterjee, O.P. Jindal Global University
Hearing of a murder in an Indian hill station, Kipling discussed the case with Arthur Conan Doyle. Arguably, the case was passed on to Agatha Christie.
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