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How do you fight air pollution in Mongolia? Start with ballet
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia – A familiar issue presented in a not-so-familiar way. A little girl walking home from school. A violent cough makes her whole body shake.
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EXPLORE…PERHAPS FORGOTTEN, WORDS TO RETURN TO
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
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Charities·11 February 2022
Medecins Sans Frontieres: Rescuing refugees in the Mediterranean
Hannah is the current Field Communications Manager onboard Ocean Viking. Since starting her career as a London publicist, her work and study at the intersection of humanitarianism, journalism and advocacy have taken her from Africa to…
ON Network · 6 min read
Arts & Culture·1 February 2021
Curious Kids Live: join us to learn about rainforests
The Conversation’s series Curious Kids responds to children’s questions on all sorts of topics – ranging from why dogs are so cute to how much a cloud weighs . Now, we’re going live. Join us online to get answers from experts on a subject…
ON Network · 1 min read
New Museum·24 September 2019
Dancing out of poverty in South Africa
Taking the floor: Dane Hurst and the Rambert dance floor he moved to South Africa. Photograph: Karl Schoemaker for the Observer
8 min read
Arts & Culture·16 March 2026
Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future
Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront…
ABUNDANCE · 2 min read
Education·29 October 2023
Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic
SOURCE: THE ART NEWSPAPER Going viral, the right way: what it's like running the world’s best museum social media accounts during a pandemic We asked the people behind the Royal Academy’s Twitter, the Met’s Instagram, the Uffizi’s TikTok and the Van Gogh Museum’s Facebook account what 2020 was like
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Arts & Culture·31 March 2021
Japan’s cherry blossom viewing parties – the history of chasing the fleeting beauty of sakura
Lecturer in Japanese Studies (Japanese and Comparative Literature), University of Sheffield
ON Network · 4 min read
Economics·27 October 2020
Equality, sustainability should guide COVID-19 recovery, say governments at regional forum
WFP/Morelia Eróstegui - Indigenous women in Bolivia speak to a WFP official about the coronavirus pandemic and healthy nutrition.
ON Network · 2 min read
Charities·10 March 2020
We simply can’t turn our backs on vulnerable refugee children
‘Boris Johnson’s withdrawal bill leaves the children whose rights have been removed with no means of finding their family in the UK.’ A child in the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece. Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA
ON Network · 4 min read
Humanitarian·18 February 2020
The librarian of Moria - and other tales of hope from the notorious refugee camp
Green shoots ... Sima Mohammedi, 26, a refugee volunteer from Afghanistan, in a garden at the One Happy Family community centre near Moria. Photograph: Byron Smith/Getty Images
ON Network · 18 min read
Humanitarian·8 January 2019
Solar energy is lighting up the lives of 80,000 Syrian refugees
File photo of Za’atari refugee camp in April 2016. © UNHCR/Jordi Matas
ON Network · 3 min read