By Michael J. Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of Bristol
Emily Rayfield, Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Bristol
The study of dinosaurs has been through a revolution in recent decades. The story began half a century ago, when Robert McNeill Alexander, a professor of zoology at the University of Leeds, showed how the speed of an animal could be calculated from the spacing of its footprints and its body size.
This formula worked both for modern and extinct animals and so, for the first time, the speed of a dinosaur could be estimated from a fossilised trackway. Alexander calculated speeds for different dinosaurs of between…
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By George Ferns, Senior Lecturer in Business and Society, University of Bath
In business, nature often gets reduced to numbers: emissions targets, sustainability metrics, biodiversity data. But when professionals rely too heavily on what’s measurable, they can risk missing what’s meaningful. One of the most effective ways to tackle this is through outdoor education.
For business students and professionals, this approach offers something conventional leadership programs often miss. Outdoors, environmental issues become tangible. Ecosystems, soil, and water are no longer abstract case…
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By Robert Blasiak, Associate Professor in Ocean Stewardship, Stockholm University
Paul Conville, Research Assistant, Climate Resilience, Stockholm University
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By Sheikh Mehzabin Chitra
Lasting peace cannot be delivered from a distance. It must grow within communities themselves shaped by local realities, and supported by international partners willing to listen before they act.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has quashed a push by his Special Minister of State Don Farrell to increase the size of the federal parliament.
Albanese was blunt in response to questioning from Opposition Leader Angus Taylor asking him to rule out an expansion.
He told parliament he was satisfied with the current number of 150 members of the House of Representatives and 12 senators from each state. He was also “very satisfied” with the current composition of the parliament.
He added: “I have been very privileged to have the best campaign director I have ever…
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By Kerry Brown, Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
The decision will go some way to improve pay equity for young adults. But it will not directly address some other issues of fairness in the workplace.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives to brief senators at the US Capitol, Washington DC, January 7, 2026. © 2026 Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Photo (Washington, DC) — The United States’ latest strike on a vessel in the Caribbean, which reportedly killed four people, highlights a sustained pattern of unlawful use of lethal force outside any context of armed conflict, amounting to extrajudicial executions, Human Rights Watch said today.The US Southern Command announced on March 25, 2026, that it had carried out a “lethal kinetic strike” against a boat it said…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Students sit aboard a school bus, in Kaweni, in the township of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte, on October 28, 2025. © 2025 Marine Gachet/AFP via Getty Images In March, France notified the Council of Europe it is extending to its overseas territories the obligations under the European Social Charter – a Council of Europe treaty guaranteeing fundamental social and economic rights.This long-overdue step ends a legal anomaly and structural injustice that excluded millions of people living within French jurisdiction, but in overseas territories.…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Iranian security forces stand guard on top of an armored vehicle in Tehran on March 21, 2026. © 2026 AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting a campaign to recruit children as young as 12 to volunteer to become “homeland defending combatants,” Human Rights Watch said today. The military recruitment and use of children is a grave violation of children’s rights and a war crime when the children are under 15.On March 26, 2026, an official from the IRGC’s 27th Mohammad Rasulullah Division in Tehran said that…
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Monday, March 30, 2026
A night of drone attacks reportedly killed two people and injured 12 in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, as a maternity hospital and three educational facilities were also damaged.
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