Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States – the traditional “Anglo” destinations – have together held a relative monopoly on international students from the Asia-Pacific region, and ...

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The COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan ended in disappointment. The central task of the talks – to establish a new climate finance goal to replace the pledge of $100 billion annually from wealthy to ...

Societies have traditionally aligned their activities with the weather, such as planting crops at specific times to avoid conflicting agricultural calendars. As climate risks rise and technology ...