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Classquake: What the global media missed in Nepal earthquake coverage

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageA man walks past collapsed buildings in Kathmandu, NepalREUTERS/Danish Siddiqui

As the world comes to terms with Nepal’s earthquake and media outlets start shifting their gaze elsewhere, it is worth analyzing how the global English media covered the disaster – and what they missed. This was a “classquake” as much as a...

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A call for greater diversity of thought in environmental studies courses

  • Written by: The Conversation

Even before Jacqueline Ho enrolled in her first environmental studies course at college, her thinking about climate change had been shaped during her years growing up in Singapore reading books by the environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben.

At college, ideas first planted by McKibben were reinforced in courses where she read classics by...

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Lessons for UKIP from the populist parties of Europe

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imageItaly's Lega Nord scores a victory in parliament.EPA/Ettore Ferrari

With a hung parliament looking the most likely outcome in the 2015 UK election, the Conservatives and Labour may have to contemplate deals with parties they have so far shunned. For David Cameron, that could even mean doing business with UKIP – a subject he has tried to avoid...

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