By Rebecca Kaarina Saari, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
Across the world, air pollution is associated with more early deaths than any other environmental exposure, raising risks of dying from lung cancer, respiratory infection, heart and lung disease and other causes.
Even in Canada, where air pollution is generally considered a low risk, more than 17,000…
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By Oiwan Lam
Hong Kong environmental groups work with community and grassroots organizations to advocate for safety nets and inclusive climate action to help the vulnerable withstand heat hazards.
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By Ese Owie, Associate Professor of International Law and Policy, Euclid University | Pôle Universitaire Euclide ; University of Essex
Moving to renewable energy will fail unless wealthy nations help finance cleaner energy systems, industrialisation and local mineral processing across the African continent. This was the argument that African countries put to a recent meeting of 57 governments on phasing out fossil fuels.
The Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, hosted by Colombia and the Netherlands and held in Colombia in April 2026, was the first major international gathering focused specifically on how countries might gradually…
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By Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
As climate crises deepen, Africa must turn its hard-won experience and local knowledge into global leadership on climate, health, food systems and clean energy.
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By Nina Wilén, Associate Professor, Lund University
Several of Mali’s major cities experienced coordinated attacks in April by a new coalition of jihadists and separatist groups.
As the coalition took over the town of Kidal in the north of Mali, images of Russian troops being escorted…
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By Ali Jasemi, Lecturer, Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University
News fatigue is not a personal failing, but a result of an evolutionary brain being asked to process a large volume of bad news from around the world.
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By Inés Pineda-Torra, Research group leader, Molecular endocrinologist and Professor in Cardiometabolic medicine, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER)
Heart disease isn’t just a “man’s problem”. Men and women’s bodies handle fats differently in midlife. What are the cardiovascular risk factors and is hormone therapy good for heart health?
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By Lisa Starr, Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Lethbridge
In Canada, we need more qualified teachers.
Alberta’s Expedited Teaching Certificates, introduced in April 2026, have been presented as a solution to getting more teachers in classrooms.
So have other shortened…
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By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University
Donald Trump isn’t the first American president to fall prey to the allure of U.S. military might and to ignore its limitations.
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By James Lorenz, Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, School of Humanities, York St John University
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV has called for much closer regulation of AI technology, particularly in military settings.
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