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By accepting that projects will be affected by the coronavirus pandemic, students and supervisors can find a healthy way forward, say Paul Ashton and Linamaria Pintor-Escobar.
Flying around the world to give a ten-minute presentation to an exhausted audience is a model long overdue for reform, say sustainability researchers Christina Bidmon, Cristyn Meath and René Bohnsack.
It started as a small group of friends. Now, hundreds of members around the world are channelling their skills to take on their country’s most pressing needs, say Johanna Figueira and Samir Rachid Zaim.