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Stillbirths: a story of tragic neglect across the developing world

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imageEvery year, more than 20,000 babies are stillborn in South Africa.Jim Young/Reuters

Maternal and child deaths have received significant attention in the effort to meet the Millennium Development Goals by the end of 2015, but stillbirths have been severely neglected. Stillbirth targets were omitted from these goals and remain absent from the...

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Rising seas could drown turtle eggs: new research

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imageA green turtle hatches in the lab. David Pike

Immersion in seawater kills sea turtle eggs, suggesting that sea turtles are increasingly at risk from rising seas, according to research published today in Royal Society Open Science.

In a laboratory experiment, researchers immersed green turtle eggs in seawater for varying lengths of time. The...

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