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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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Watch: Arctic tankers break their way through thick ice in sea between Russia and China

The experimental round trip of Russian shipowner Sovcomflot’s LNG tanker ‘Christophe de Margerie’ was made in the dark winter of the Arctic.

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Feb 23, 2021 · 10:12 am
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A gas tanker & icebreaker made it from China to Yamal in the 1st transit of the Northern Sea Route in February, "confirming that year-round safe navigation is possible," Russia says. There's no multi-year ice left there. @BarentsNews https://t.co/57fCekHYZL pic.twitter.com/PgO45fjN9V

— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) February 21, 2021
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