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World leaders and climate scientists are in what is scheduled to be the last full day of negotiations at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Stay across our coverage here. On the other side of the world, as we reported recently, Brazil is gripped by drought in the Amazon.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, I caught up with Cesar Baima, an editor with The Conversation in Brazil, and Philip Fearnside, an ecologist who has spent 45 years living in and studying the Amazon region.
Philip lives in Manaus, a city of around two million people in Brazil’s Amazonas state. A professor at the country’s National Institute of Amazonian Research, he told me more about why the region is suffering from a severe and unprecedented drought, why that’s so dangerous for the planet, and what can be done to protect the rainforest.
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Robert Chris, The Open University; Hugh Hunt, University of Cambridge
Is reaching net zero emissions by 2050 enough to halt warming? One leading scientist says no.
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Gemma Ware, The Conversation
Brazil’s rainforest is a massive carbon store, so its severe drought could be a tipping point for the global climate. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
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Ahmad Syarif, Johns Hopkins University
The shift in focus in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will change how China does its business in Indonesia – that might mean less money for the latter’s ambitious infrastructure projects.
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Samantha Mynhardt, Stellenbosch University
Scientists found De Winton’s golden mole by tracking its environmental DNA through the sand.
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John Strawson, University of East London
Israelis are still reeling after October 7 and many feel that the international community has turned against them.
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Tets Kimura, Flinders University
After 2013’s The Wind Rises, Miyazaki spent ten years creating The Boy and the Heron, speculated to be his final film.
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Klaus Dodds, Royal Holloway University of London
A longstanding territorial dispute could flare into open confrontation in South America.
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Eleonora Ardemagni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Catholic University of Milan
Long a well-kept secret, the archipelago of Socotra is one of the most biodiverse on earth. But the Emirates have other plans for its main island, with which it has long cultivated ties.
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Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, University of Southern California
New research suggests artificial intelligence can make professional development programs more accessible and effective.
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Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University
The Christmas pudding, once known as the ‘Empire Pudding,’ reflects the lasting legacy of the British Empire.
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