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Bleached girls: India and its love for light skin
“Let’s scrub out that tan” is a common refrain in beauty parlours in India, where girls grow up with...
Flooding the Heart of Empire
The Baffler ,November 8, 2023 Flooding the...
Wildfires are raging in the Mediterranean. What can we learn?
In Italy, firefighters across the country are battling hundreds of wildfires, the flames fanned by a...
How a humble cockroach rewrote the history of New Caledonia
Finding an insect species new to science can sometimes be very significant discovery. This is case f...
Cities rally around the Paris deal, a reminder that global problems can have local solutions
When President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement, the landmark climat...
‘I’m so sorry’: when Indian advertisements turn around sexism
Social marketing in India has become increasingly focused on gender roles, family hierarchy, and tra...
Mumbai floods: what happens when cities sacrifice ecology for development
As the storm that was hurricane Harvey deluged the areas around Houston, Texas, large parts of north...
The small hands of Moroccan recycling
This article is based on a series about recycling documented in the 2017 book What to do with leftov...
Jim Yong Kim starts his second term as World Bank president despite a rocky first five years
Jim Yong Kim is set to begin his second five-year term as World Bank president on July 1, having bee...
The hidden secrets of insect poop
Insect defecation may not seem like one of the pressing scientific inquiries of our time, but in fac...