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climate change Green

Does A River Have Rights? Inside The Movement To Grant Legal Personhood To Nature

The Vilcabamba, the Atrato or the Whanganui have achieved recognition as living entities with rights. More and more rivers are achieving this type of legal protection (and respect). In Spain, the Tins was the first river to have its rights recognized.

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blog

Ukrainian Magazine Smiles For Longevity

Kiev-based weekly news magazine Krayina asks its readers, “Are you ready to live until you’re 120?” In this week’s edition, the Ukrainian-language publication writes that longevity means additional opportunities — but also new problems: What to make of a couple extra decades? How to live in a family where four or five generations coexist? At […]

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Future

In Swiss Lakes, Scientists Search For The Source Of Immortality

Tiny freshwater hydrae have incredible powers of regeneration. In the quest for human longevity, researchers in Switzerland are trying to learn from their very little and long lives.

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Ideas Society

Our Kids Will Live To Be 100 – Time To Celebrate?

A new German study shows that half of people born today will live to be 100. Surely this calls for a new way to think about life – and lifestyle.

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