By Michael Wahman, Professor, Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Lindsay Favero, PhD Student, Michigan State University
Across southern Africa, sitting presidents have faced a wave of turnovers and electoral setbacks in the past few years.
Malawi and Botswana saw opposition victories. In
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By Matt Walsh, Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University
New analysis of articles about Arday show the volume of coverage he faced in the final weeks of his life.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Supporters of imprisoned environmental activists stage a protest during their appeal hearing outside of the Royal Courts of Justice, London, January 29, 2025. © 2025 Sipa via AP Images As space for environmental advocacy rapidly shrinks, Indigenous peoples, climate activists, and land defenders increasingly face harassment, criminalization, and repression for protecting lands, ecosystems, and communities from environmental harm. The use of violence, intimidation, and threats to silence environmental defenders is an urgent challenge. Human Rights Watch…
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By Richard Lindsay, Head of Environmental and Conservation Research, Sustainability Research Institute, University of East London
Wildfires that have swept across Britain’s upland moors and lowland heaths in unprecedented tinder-dry conditions have left behind expanses of smoking, blackened vegetation.
Once the smoke has cleared, what is recovery going to look like? How long before the first green shoots of recovery will emerge?
Remarkably, the answer to the latter question may be “days” rather than weeks, months or decades. That’s because both heaths and moors contain several distinct habitats, each of which responds differently to fire.
Dry lowland heaths are dominated by heather, a…
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By Xue Zhang, Assistant Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn State
Jonathan Wright, Assistant Research Professor of Health and Human Development, Penn State
New Penn State research on nearly 200,000 Pennsylvania teens finds everyday bonds with family, school and community may help prevent youth suicide.
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By Kathryn H. Jacobsen, Professor of Health Studies, University of Richmond
Measles is making a comeback around the world. In places with low vaccination rates, a few cases can quickly become an epidemic.
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By Abigail Boggs, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Education Studies, Wesleyan University
The Trump administration is revising a visa rule for international students that in part determines how long, and under what conditions, they can stay in the country. The change sounds technical. Its effects are not.
Beginning Sept. 15, 2026, most students entering the U.S. on F-1 and J-1 visas – meaning visas…
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By Kim S. Bernard, Professor of Biological Oceanography, Oregon State University
With location regulations no longer in force, fishing boats are harvesting thousands of tons of krill from very few areas, increasing competition with penguins, seals, whales and other marine life.
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By Billy J. Stratton, Professor of English and Literary Arts, University of Denver
Educators can confront AI head on by distinguishing its pattern-recognition skills from its inability to daydream, embody other people and authentically express itself.
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By Linda M. Boland, Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
Protein powders and protein-fortified versions of all manner of foods line grocery store shelves. But just because something has added protein doesn’t necessarily make it better.
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