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As Venezuela’s economy has collapsed in the last few years, about 7% of its population has fled for other countries. The majority have stayed in South America, and say they plan to move back someday. Rebecca Hanson of the University of Florida describes the scale of this crisis, which has sparked conflict in neighbouring countries.
Shisha smoking has become more popular in recent years, partly because many people belive it’s safer to smoke than cigarettes. But in truth it isn’t, says Kamran Siddiqi – and as a habit, it’s even harder to kick.
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Venezuelan migrants wait at the Binational Border Service Center of Peru.
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Rebecca Hanson, University of Florida
Fleeing economic collapse, around 2.3 million Venezuelans have left the country over the past few years.
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Environment + Energy
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Simon Granovsky-Larsen, University of Regina
Increased use of renewable energies could help curb climate change, but the water required for their production has dispossessed rural Guatemalans.
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Luciana Porfirio, CSIRO; David Newth, CSIRO; John Finnigan, CSIRO
Climate change will change the dynamic for major food exporters like China and the US.
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Health + Medicine
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Kamran Siddiqi, University of York
A common smoking cessation drug doesn't appear to work for shisha smokers.
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Arts + Culture
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Priscilla Wehi, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research; Hēmi Whaanga, University of Waikato; Murray Cox, Massey University
Tracing extinctions that happened centuries ago is difficult. But in New Zealand, the last place to be settled some 750 years ago, ancestral Māori oral traditions retain clues about lost species.
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Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
It's a comforting falsehood that once an artifact joins a museum's collection, it's safe for eternity. Museums face many foes in the fight to preserve – a lack of funds might be the biggest.
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Politics + Society
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Loren B Landau, University of the Witwatersrand
Framing xenophobic violence as a question of immigrant victimisation invites divisions between neighbours.
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Justine Shih Pearson, University of Sydney
Two new dance works allow the public to engage in a conversation around constitutional recognition and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples.
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