By Alexis Cloquell Lozano, Profesor Sociología. Cátedra Caixa Popular para el estudio de los desafíos sociales y la vulnerabilidad., Universidad Católica de Valencia
Beatriz Felipe Pérez, Investigadora asociada al Centro de Estudios de Derecho Ambiental de Tarragona, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Joan Lacomba Vazquez, Profesor Departamento de Trabajo Social, Universitat de València
María Isolda Perelló Carrascosa, Investigadora Doctora Sénior, Universitat de València
Images of families displaced by floods, prolonged droughts or extreme storms have become a distressingly regular feature of the daily news. As the impact of climate change intensifies, so does concern over its effects on human mobility. Ongoing changes to the world’s climate now raise a salient, apparently simple question: to what extent does climate change cause migration?
The answer is anything but simple.
Over recent decades, the relationship…
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By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation
Our picks this week include a history of how America came to love football, a book about freedom of speech, an adaptation of a Woolf book and two artistic takes on nature.
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By Martin Farr, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
The possible nominative determinism of the Makerfield constituency may prove as significant to political historians as it has been a blessing to newspaper sub-editors crafting puns on “Makerfield or Breakerfield”.
The immediate futures of Andy Burnham and Keir Starmer were decided in the historic happening of the first UK byelection to effectively elect a prime minister. It was a battle of our times.
Burnham’s success will make a new administration as it breaks the present one. Prime Minister Starmer’s…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Migrants walk towards a bus to be taken for processing after disembarking from a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboat on a beach after crossing the English Channel, in Dungeness, England, on June 15, 2022. © 2022 Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images The UK Home Office is pushing ahead with plans to use AI technology to guess the age of young people arriving at UK borders to seek asylum, starting in 2027. Yet the Home Office’s own tests found the technology performed worse on certain groups of people, notably Africans. The plans…
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By Amnesty International
Can you tell me about your role at Amnesty and what it involves? I work with the Refugees and Migrants’ Rights team, doing research and advising colleagues across Amnesty. I do everything from collecting testimonies and evidence from the ground, analyzing it, and bringing it to international institutions and organizations with the aim of influencing […] The post “Communities are stronger when refugees and migrants are included” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Alex Prior, Lecturer in Politics with International Relations, London South Bank University
Makerfield’s new MP said the area would give its name to a new test to ensure fairness for neglected areas.
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By Aarushi Bhandari, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
In the trailer for “Toy Story 5,” a little girl named Bonnie is playing with her toys when a package arrives in the mail.
She opens it to find Lilypad, a tablet for children.
The iconic toys from the series – Woody, Buzz Lightyear, the Potato Heads, Forky and Slinky Dog – then watch in dismay as Bonnie casts them all aside in favor of the bright tablet screen. Rex the dinosaur exclaims, “What? Extinction? Not again!”
The film zeros in on a uniquely 21st-century phenomenon: the “
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By Alex Krasnok, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Florida International University
Sensors cannot replace bridge inspectors. They can help engineers see corrosion, cracks, scour and weak magnetic signals that eyes alone can miss.
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By Charles N. Haas, Professor of Environmental Engineering, Drexel University
Robert Promisloff, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Drexel University
The source was a newly discovered bacterium called Legionella pneumophila that can thrive in household pipes, whirlpools, cooling units and outdoor fountains.
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By Jamie Medhurst, Professor of Film and Media, Aberystwyth University
With such cuts in programming and in jobs, will the BBC be able to maintain its high level of trust and attention?
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