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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents
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    Why Adani’s Dharavi redevelopment plan has run into resistance from some residents

  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

  • Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it
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    Is AI not all it’s made out to be? A new book punctures the hype and proposes some ways to resist it

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No electricity, water pipes frozen: Scenes from snow-hit Texas

A deadly winter storm hit Texas earlier this week, causing heavy snowfall that has disrupted normal life.

Scroll Staff
Feb 18, 2021 · 03:38 pm
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This is a “snownado”.

This is in Texas—where it’s getting dumped with another snow storms, with frigid temps that it’s causing rolling blackouts because gas pipelines have frozen up & people left freezing in homes.

Welcome to 2021 climate change.

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— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) February 15, 2021

SNOW ON THE BEACH: Rare sight in Texas as winter storm brings snowfall to the shoreline in Galveston. https://t.co/Wtyknos8RJ pic.twitter.com/x95UG8JbZO

— ABC News (@ABC) February 15, 2021

Drone footage shows a snow-covered community on Galveston Bay as dangerous winter storm slams Texas. https://t.co/svvCG15nfp pic.twitter.com/j4KV3Io1jg

— ABC News (@ABC) February 17, 2021

🇺🇸 — VIDEO: As many as seven semi-trucks, a snow plow, and several passenger vehicles were involved in a pileup on I-10 near El Paso, Texas yesterday. A number of people were injured.

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— Belaaz (@TheBelaaz) February 15, 2021

HEB grocery store in San Antonio, Texas. Only allowing in 20 people at a time. Been in line for a couple of hours. Staying in line, as we are expecting another round of snow and freezing temps. Power is off and on. Water pressure is decreasing 😢 pic.twitter.com/Gn6cs8N7kn

— Edna Leal (@LovelyAuntEdna) February 17, 2021
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