By Meg Brayshaw, John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature, University of Sydney
Mining has driven Australia’s prosperity and way of life. It’s also environmentally and socially destructive. Our mining crime novels explore this tension.
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By Jonathan Levy, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
Howard Frumkin, Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Jonathan Patz, Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vijay Limaye, Adjunct Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026. It moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding, a formal determination that greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide and methane from burning fossil fuels, endanger public health…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Midwife Celena Brown of Commonsense Childbirth in Florida, examines a patient during a pregnancy checkup in Winter Garden, Florida, US, June 25, 2024. © 2024 Laura Ungar/AP Photo Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescinded its 2009 endangerment finding: a drastic move even in the context of the Trump administration’s larger deregulatory and anti-climate agenda. Impacts on climate action and communities threaten to be extremely broad but also pose particular threats to increasingly beleaguered reproductive rights.Because it is…
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By Mathieu Lajante, Associate Professor in Marketing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Sameh Al Natour, Associate Professor, Director, Information Technology Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dating apps reshape human connection, love, choice and intimacy into market transactions designed to maximize profit rather than build relationships.
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Daniel Cueto-Villalobos speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the origins of people in Minneapolis coming together to protect their neighbours.
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By Ozlem Cankaya, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Curriculum Studies, MacEwan University
Natalia Rohatyn-Martin, Associate Professor, Department of Human Services and Early Learning, MacEwan University
Asking children to explain what they are building or allowing them time to explore without interruption can deepen the STEM learning embedded in play.
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By Myriam Denov, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Children, Families and Armed Conflict, McGill University
Editor’s note: This story is the first in a series of articles from Canada’s top social sciences and humanities academics. Click here to register for In Conversation with Myriam Denov, Feb. 25 at 1 p.m. ET. This is a virtual event co-hosted by The Conversation Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
From Gaza to Ukraine and from Sudan to Myanmar, war rages across the globe, exacting its gravest toll on those least implicated in the violence: children.…
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By Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova University
The Food and Drug Administration has refused to review an application from the biotech company Moderna to approve its mRNA-based flu vaccine.
The agency’s decision, which Moderna announced in a press release on Feb. 10, 2026, is the latest step in efforts by federal health officials under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to disrupt…
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By Steve Waters, Professor of scriptwriting and playwright, University of East Anglia
I track my characters from the dog-days of the pandemic to an undisclosed near future where mainstream politics has collapsed and a populist revolt is unleashed.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
The sports featured at the Winter Olympics defy gravity and physics. Many competitors move at breakneck speeds down steep, snowy inclines or careen across icy surfaces in a bid to set world records and earn their place on the podium.
But as exciting as these events are for spectators, they also place competitors at serious risk of injury. This is something we have been reminded of after US alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn fractured her leg during a horror crash…
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