Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Briefing by Elyse Mosquini, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, at the UN Security Council Arria-formula Meeting: “A Decade of Resolution 2286: Protecting Medical Care in Conflict Amid Evolving Threats”.
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By Tina Soliman-Hunter, Professor of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Macquarie University
Greater public fuel reserves will be held in Australia and more fuel kept in private stocks. The government’s new fuel plans are sensible – just late.
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By Helen A. L. Currie, Research Fellow and Centre Manager, Centre for Blue Governance, University of Portsmouth
Irene Gregory-Eaves, Professor of Biology, McGill University
Steven J Cooke, Canada Research Professor, Conservation Physiology, Carleton University
In central Seoul, South Korea, a motorway once covered a buried urban stream. Today, that same stretch has been uncovered – a process known as daylighting – and this river is home to plants, fish and insects. This flowing water cools the city in summer and attracts tens of thousands of people every day. What used to be concrete now boosts biodiversity, the local economy and community wellbeing.
Similar transformations are unfolding elsewhere.
In Christchurch, New Zealand, river habitats and wetlands were rebuilt after a major earthquake in 2011, guided in part by Māori…
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By Kathryn McDonald, Principal Academic in Audio Production, Bournemouth University
This first fully AI podcast produces a coherent-sounding narrative. But coherence is not the same as sense making, and pattern recognition is not interpretation.
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By Jon Rainford, Lecturer in Education, The Open University
Alex Blower, Research Fellow, Arts University Bournemouth
Across the UK, working‑class boys are navigating an unprecedented convergence of pressures. There are entrenched gaps between working-class boys and their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of education.
Often, however, the solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in assumptions…
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By Gumersindo Feijoo Costa, Catedrático de Ingeniería Química. Centro de Investigación Interdisciplinar en Tecnologías Ambientales - CRETUS, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
A simple stroll along a beach on a windy day can be mesmerising. It’s easy to spend hours watching waves crash and sea foam fizz across the sand, but this beautiful yet fleeting phenomenon can also give us clues about the health of the ocean.
Sea foam is produced by the turbulence caused by the force of the waves and the wind which, when combined with organic matter (mainly plankton), forms a mixture of water and air bubbles that clump together and rise to the surface as foam.
This colloidal…
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By Human Rights Watch
Reports emerged in April that the US government was considering resetting diplomatic ties with Eritrea. Doing so could include lifting sanctions the United States imposed on the country’s ruling party and military in 2021 for committing serious abuses during the armed conflict in neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Easing sanctions now—in the absence of accountability for grave violations both in Eritrea and in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, and clear human rights benchmarks—would signal tolerance for unchecked abuses in the future. Eritrea, which sits along the Red Sea corridor,…
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By Peace News
As Paul Kithima and the entrepreneurs in Makindye demonstrate, when refugees are given the tools to succeed, they don’t just survive, they build the future of the country that welcomed them.
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By Ada Cheung, Professorial Fellow in Endocrinology, The University of Melbourne
Don’t cut your patches in half, as this stops them working. There’s no need to ration your supplies – here are other options to ease your menopause symptoms.
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By Wesley Morgan, Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
The Santa Marta climate talks showed many countries want to move ahead with plans to end the use of fossil fuels, once and for all.
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