Africa’s climate change balancing act: green energy vs economic development
Sub-Saharan African countries should be given more financial and technical support to cope with climate change disasters, so ...
What is an oligarchy, and is the United States poised to become one?
Outgoing United States president Joe Biden has warned ‘an oligarchy is taking shape in America’. What is an oligarchy? And is ...
Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it
Philosophers explain how our mainstream understanding of ‘home’ is a culturally specific one, and how it could be broadened.
How is Antarctica melting, exactly? Crucial details are beginning to come into focus
The Antarctic ice sheet is nearly twice the area of Australia and holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 ...
How America courted increasingly destructive wildfires − and what that means for protecting homes today
In many parts of the US, Americans must learn to live with fire. That means careful decisions on where homes are built and ...
Tanzania’s Maasai are being forced off their ancestral land – the tactics the government uses
The reality, however, is that the right of the Maasai to use that land is being taken away by the government. The land is ...
Community savings groups in Uganda are good stewards of local people’s money – and of outsiders’ funds too, research shows
For people without access to banks, community savings groups are a lifeline. New research suggests they’re good stewards of ...
What should I do if I can’t see a psychiatrist?
People with mental health conditions wait the longest in emergency out of any patient type. But psychiatrist shortages and a ...
Why Alberta’s Danielle Smith is rejecting the Team Canada approach to Trump’s tariff threats
The largest exporting province rejecting a ‘Team Canada’ approach against Donald Trump doesn’t position the country well to ...
MLK’s ‘beloved community’ has inspired social justice work for decades − what did he mean?
Martin Luther King Jr. popularized the term ‘beloved community’ and gave it his own meaning. But the still-cited phrase was ...
Why the Australian Open’s online tennis coverage looks like a Wii sports game
Replacing players with virtual avatars was partly a necessity due to exclusive media rights deals. But beyond that, it ...
Bird flu flares up again in Michigan poultry – an infectious disease expert explains the risk to humans, chickens, cows and other animals
The virus impacts milk production and poses significant risks to other bird species, particularly domestic poultry as well as ...