By César Martín-Gómez, Catedrático en instalaciones y sistemas energéticos en arquitectura y urbanismo, Universidad de Navarra
José Manuel Cabrero, Catedrático. Estructuras Arquitectónicas y Construcción con Madera. Cátedra Madera, Universidad de Navarra
On July 24, 2026, multiple forest fires spurred by an intense heatwave led Spain’s government to declare a national emergency in the Community of Madrid and the province of Ávila.
Widespread evacuations and the deployment of the national Military Emergency Unit (UME) confirmed what researchers have been saying for years: fires that spread to built-up areas demand radically different responses to those that have governed forest firefighting in Spain up to now.
The area where natural landscape meets built-up areas is technically known as the “wildland-urban interface”. Globally,…
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By Michael Price, Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Simon Fraser University
The Canadian government is proposing sweeping changes to accelerate industrial development and reduce environmental oversight. These proposed legislative, regulatory and policy reforms could significantly diminish the government’s capacity to assess environmental impacts and weaken protections for fish habitats and species at risk.
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By Kathryn Mattison, Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies, McMaster University
This article contains spoilers for Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has sparked renewed interest in one of the world’s oldest and most enduring stories — and it has sparked controversy about whether or not the film tells the story in the right way.
But what if we step back and think about how the adaptable nature of myth makes questions of right and wrong interpretations more complex?
As…
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By Simon Blanchette, Lecturer, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
OpenAI’s models were told to find and exploit vulnerabilities. They did — on a company that was never part of the exercise.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Police removing journalists from Toplum TV on March 6, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. © 2024 Aziz Karimov/Getty Images An Azerbaijani court on July 27 sentenced nine journalists, media workers, and civil society activists to between 12 and 15 years in prison. It is the harshest verdict since the government began its ongoing crackdown on independent journalism.The Baku Grave Crimes Court handed down the sentences in the so-called Toplum TV case. Akif Gurbanov and Ruslan Izzatli, affiliated with the Third Republic civic platform which co-produced Toplum TV’s programming,…
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By Janine Mendes-Franco
“Ian McDonald was the Caribbean made flesh [...] He was a poet of rare grace, a scribe of eloquence, a keeper of our fragile, fierce cultural flame.”
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By Amnesty International
Responding to extreme heat related weather events around the globe, including widespread wildfires, drought and floods, Marta Schaaf, Programme Director for Climate, ESJ and Corporate Accountability at Amnesty International said: “Extreme heat is not just a weather event. This heat is political. It is where climate change driven by corporate greed and political failure collides […] The post Global: Extreme heat exposes deadly collision of climate change, corporate greed and political failure as rights burn appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International joins the call from the Guerreras por la Amazonía (GxA, Women Warriors for the Amazon), who, five years after securing a landmark ruling requiring Ecuador to eliminate oil industry gas flares located near populated areas and provide reparations to affected communities, continue to demand its full implementation. “Over the past five years, the […] The post Ecuador: Guerreras por la Amazonía demand the elimination of gas flares five years after landmark ruling appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Lisa Sachs, Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
The world’s governments will arrive in Addis Ababa in late 2027 for COP32, the first African-hosted climate summit in five years. Ethiopia’s presidency is on behalf of the African Union, the continental body. Addis Ababa has the chance to show what a Conference of Parties (COP) can deliver. But for that to happen the…
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By Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Professor of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University
John Paul Makumbi, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Microbiology, Stellenbosch University
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is defined as the ability of disease-causing microorganisms to withstand treatments like antibiotics.
Often described as a silent pandemic, it is already responsible for an estimated 1.27 million deaths each year, with the highest burden in Africa.
Efforts to tackle antibiotic resistance have largely focused on hospitals and clinics,…
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