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Residents from Pennsylvania's Mon Valley region listen to local and national candidates speak about environmental issues
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As winter in Afghanistan approaches, coal remains king despite soaring prices and pollution

Coal remains the main source of fuel and heat in Afghanistan, where the price increases have left many poor families struggling to heat their homes through the winter months and even as coal worsens air quality in the Afghan capital.

Falling fertility: why more women choose to have fewer children or none at all, while others who want them struggle to conceive
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Falling fertility: why more women choose to have fewer children or none at all, while others who want them struggle to conceive

In many countries fertility rates have fallen. Women are putting off having children, or not having any. Infertility is also on the rise, and in Asia there’s still a stigma about it – but attitudes are changing.
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From South Korea to Malaysia, the ‘smart cities’ hailed as answer to world’s urban ills turn to ghost towns
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From South Korea to Malaysia, the ‘smart cities’ hailed as answer to world’s urban ills turn to ghost towns

Across the globe, urban developments conceived by corporations have been pitched as technological and eco-friendly utopias, but many are prohibitively expensive and catalysts for land dispossession and social inequality.
Philippines death toll rises to 28 as Typhoon Mangkhut slams into Hong Kong
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Philippines death toll rises to 28 as Typhoon Mangkhut slams into Hong Kong

The massive storm is considered this year's strongest.

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