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Au Moyen Âge, les faucons offraient aux femmes des moyens à la fois symboliques et concrets d’affirmer leur genre, leur pouvoir et leur statut dans un monde dominé par les hommes.
The plate made for Isabella d’Este-Gonzaga in 1524.
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The expression is, ‘handed to you on a silver plate’; but a recent breakthrough came to me on a painted ceramic one.
A section of the A379 coastal road between Torcross and Slapton in Devon washed away after being battered by the storms in February 2026.
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Policymakers have generally been extremely slow to do anything about the problem.
Soybean plantation on the outskirts of Brasília, in the heart of the Cerrado. Instead of expanding to also protect Brazil’s most threatened biome, the Soy Moratorium – one of the most successful environmental agreements ever implemented in the world – is losing momentum due to political pressure from the agricultural sector in neighbouring Mato Grosso.
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In light of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, voluntary commitments between companies, governments and civil society to avoid purchasing soy from deforested areas in the Amazon should be expanded
Nigerian separatist rebels, 2006.
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The author’s vocabulary narrowed a decade before diagnosis – a clue that could transform early dementia detection.
Área da saúde é uma das que o desenvolvimento da capacidade dos robôs de sentir o toque como os humanos pode fazer uma grande diferença, tanto no treinamento de profissionais quanto provendo cuidados a pacientes e idosos.
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Para aprender da mesma forma que os humanos, os robôs precisam de corpos que também sintam como os humanos.
Plantação de soja nos arredores de Brasília, no coração do cerrado. Em vez de se expandir para proteger também o bioma mais ameaçado do Brasil, a Moratória da Soja - um dos acordos ambientais mais bem-sucedidos já implementados no mundo - perde força por conta da pressão política do setor agrário do vizinho Mato Grosso.
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Diante das crises climática e de perda de biodiversidade, compromisso voluntário entre empresas, governos e sociedade civil que evita compra de soja proveniente de áreas desmatadas na Amazônia deveria ser expandido para o Cerrado
Woolly rhinos once roamed the Earth far and wide.
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A new study shows the woolly rhino was not the inbred, genetically doomed species scientists had thought.
Des chiffres vieux de dix ans évoquent une population de 60 millions de chiens des rues en Inde, bien trop pour les rassembler dans des foyers.
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Nourris par les citadins plutôt que contraints à aller chercher leur pitance dans les poubelles, les chiens des rues indiennes développent de nouveaux comportements, dangereux pour les habitants.
A Ukrainian soldier holds the national flag in a sunflower field.
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford