The Return: how each new retelling of The Odyssey opens up the worlds of the women in this epic

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Waves crash across Ithacas rocky shore. The city of Troy has fallen, we are told, as the shuttle on Penelopes loom flickers across the screen. On the island of Ithaca, Queen Penelope still longs for the return of her...

Earth’s oceans once turned green – and they could change again

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Were Earths oceans once green? 100Y Design/Shutterstock Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese researchers have made a compelling case that...

Some rivers have ‘legal personhood’. Now they need a lawyer

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New Zealand has granted legal personhood to the Whanganui River. Ron Kolet / shutterstock Most rivers need some human help to stay clean and healthy and to flow freely. People have to fish out litter, block sewage, look...

Canada was mostly spared from Trump’s reciprocal tariffs, but it must not grow complacent

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United States President Donald Trumps so-called Liberation Day introduced sweeping reciprocal tariffs on approximately 60 countries on April 2. Canada, a major U.S. trading partner, was largely spared from these reciprocal...

Supreme Court’s decision on deportations gave both the Trump administration and ACLU reasons to cheer a victory − but noncitizens clearly lost

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A prison officer guards a gate at the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, where hundreds of migrants from the United States were deported by the Trump administration. Alex Pena/Anadolu via Getty Images President...

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

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Columbia University has been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration. Rudi Von Briel/Photodisc via Getty Images Many American universities, widely seen globally as beacons of academic integrity and free speech, are...

Australia urgently needs to get serious about long-term climate policy – but there’s no sign of that in the election campaign

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The federal election should be an earnest contest over the fundamentals of Australias climate and energy policies. Strong global action on climate change is clearly in Australias long-term national interest. But it has...