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Sustainability: adapt or die summit.

Keep up-to-date on the Economist's big event for this week in London. Talk is fine, but forming real policy for NGOs, governments and even local councils and your own home...

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Sustainability in Central Asia

The moving stars above ancient Khiva, on the Silk Road, point to a better future for Uzbekistan as the GDP continues to improve and sustainability of resources is given priority.Ancient...

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Sustainable cotton: a need for investment

There's an awful lot of cotton. Labour, or alternatively expensive automation is a huge burden for those Chinese farmers who remain. In all countries growing cotton, great numbers of migratory...

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Pig farming improves its image (worldwide)

The breeds of pig that have developed from ancient wild boar lineages ae weird and wonderful. This woolly example is the Hungarian Mangalica pig, well adapted to outdoor breeding -...

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Transformers, but with your house!

A former ministry in The Hague was the site for a celebratory balloon release on September 29th – in the form of a house; Balloon house image; Credit: © Energiesprong...

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Cotton growers need help

The cotton plant is usually disregarded, but the 90% of farmers who produce or ital. crop in the developing world don't see it that way. They need water desperately to...

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A fly in your ear!

This Ectophasia fly and other Tachinids are parasitic on many types of insect Just as the Ormia fly here attacks only crickets ; Fly image; Credit: © Shutterstock Parasitic flies...

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Ghosting human function: the robot future

The guide dog or seeing-eye dog is also used for many other types of handicapped people. Can the wet nose be replaced with a robot that doesn't have a short...

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