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The WTO's Nairobi talks and the multi-billion dollar trade agreement you've never heard of

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageReports of the demise of the WTO's trade agenda might be premature.Reuters/Denis Balibouse

In less than a week trade ministers from across the globe will come together at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Nairobi, Kenya.

The meeting follows more than a decade of stalled global trade negotiations since the...

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Darkness is disappearing and that's bad news for astronomy

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imageThe Dreamtime constellation of The Emu rises out of the glow of Sydney, 350km away from the Australian Astronomical Observatory.David Malin, Author provided

Astronomers have much to celebrate in the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies (IYL). Until the 1930s, every scrap of information about the universe came to us in the form...

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