By Edward Rhys Jones, DPhil Candidate in Area Studies, University of Oxford
Sea Legend, a Chinese shipping line, recently announced it was launching a regular container service between China and Europe via the Arctic. The announcement follows a trial crossing in 2025 that saw a container ship travel from the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in eastern China to Felixstowe in the UK in 20 days.
This will not have gone unnoticed in the west. While the Iran war has not halted shipping traffic through the Suez Canal, it has sharply elevated risks around the Red Sea,…
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By Erika Sanchez-Velazquez, Deputy Head of School, Computing and Information Science, Anglia Ruskin University
For parents, keeping children safe is not only instinctive but a priority. We babyproof the house, we check the car seat twice, we wake up in the middle of the night at the smallest sound.
As technology has evolved, it also offered a promise to help parents watch over our kids even when we are not in the same room as them.
Throughout the different stages of kids’ lives, parents now rely on different technology to help keep kids safe. This tech now includes trackers, location-sharing apps and…
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By Kate Guthrie, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Bristol
Classical music lovers might think they’re different from pop music stans but letters show their love and devotion run just as deep.
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By Nils Mallock, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of War Studies, XCEPT (Centre for Statecraft and National Security), King's College London; London School of Economics and Political Science
What started with the death of young woman in a traffic accident has escalated into a general protest about a lack of accountability for the powerful.
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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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