Japan's population peaked around 2008 and has been steadily declining since. But construction hasn't stopped.
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-09-asia-future-embrace-limitations-people.html)
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A team of African researchers has published the first comprehensive review of seagrass restoration activities across Africa's coastline.
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More than two decades of US military presence in Iraq comes to an end.
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A new study by an international research team provides the first systematic, cross-cultural comparison of how children help their peers. While previous research has mainly focused on how children help adults, often within the family, peer interactions play an equally important but far less studi...