By Whitney Isenhower, Journalism Fellow, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
The Earth has already experienced three mass coral bleaching events over the last few decades, with a fourth happening now. Researchers are trying to find ways to make corals more adaptable to heat.
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By Ahmed Hamza, Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Once powerful AI models are released, it’s nearly impossible to keep them from being misused. Minimizing the risk means making safety the top priority in developing the systems.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A child from Guatemala holds his stuffed monkey as he waits inside Miami International Airport to leave the United States and reunite with his recently deported parents in Guatemala, in Miami, Florida, December 4, 2025. © 2025 Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Wilfredo, un niño venezolano de 10 años, compareció solo ante un tribunal de inmigración hace dos semanas, obligado a defenderse frente a su posible deportación a Ecuador mientras su madre permanecía detenida en un centro de ICE. Como miles de niños y niñas en procedimientos de deportación, Wilfredo no…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image The Parliament plenary session in Tbilisi, Georgia, December 17, 2025. © 2025 Parliament of Georgia Georgia’s new centralized health database law took effect on May 1, creating serious risks of privacy violations and discrimination, and potentially deterring people from seeking health care and mental health services.Parliament adopted the legislative package on December 9, 2025, mandating the establishment of a unified database covering people with mental health conditions and those diagnosed with alcohol or drug dependence.Framed as a tool to streamline licensing…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov in the defendants' cage on the last day of his trial on charges related to the July 2022 protests in Nukus, the main city in Karakalpakstan, at a court in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on January 31, 2023. © 2023 Eurasianet When an Uzbekistan court on May 1 found the Karakalpak lawyer and blogger Dauletmurat Tazhimuratov guilty of committing “actions disrupting the work of a penal institution,” sentencing him to five years in prison, he reportedly had a wry grin on his face. However unjust, Tazhimuratov surely expected such an outcome. Tazhimuratov…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Mifepristone at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ames, lowa, US, July 18, 2024. © 2024 Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo The US Supreme Court paused on Monday an order by the country’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals that had inflicted a serious blow to abortion access nationwide. While the immediate danger was temporarily halted, the episode underscores a looming threat to abortion access posed by ongoing litigation in the United States. On May 1, the Fifth Circuit Court ruled that abortion providers could not remotely prescribe mifepristone and mail it to patients…
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Tuesday, May 5, 2026
The human rights situation in Mali is rapidly deteriorating following coordinated attacks by armed groups across the country, with civilians killed, displaced and cut off from food and aid, UN rights office OHCHR said on Tuesday.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International strongly condemns the Zambian government for open-endedly “postponing” RightsCon – the largest global digital human rights conference, which was due to start today in Lusaka and online – after allegedly being pressured by Chinese diplomats. Conference organizers Access Now have confirmed they believe “foreign interference” was behind the last-minute postponement. According to their statement, officials from Zambia’s Ministry of Technology and Science had communicated that they were under pressure from Chinese diplomats over, among others, the participation of Taiwanese civil…
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By Yulia Bosworth, Associate Professor of French and Linguistics, Binghamton University, State University of New York
In Canada, language is not just about communication — it touches on identity, power and recognition. But how does linguistic identity shape perceptions of languages and those who speak them?
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By Gabrielle Principe, Professor of Psychology, College of Charleston
Hollywood loves a character who has the perfect total recall of a photographic memory. But this idea is a fantasy. It’s not how memory works – for good reason.
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