By George C. Homsy, Director of Environmental Studies, Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Ki Eun Kang, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, California State University, San Bernardino
More than 12 million US households keep their homes either too cold or too hot, sacrificing comfort because they can’t afford to pay their energy bills.
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By Anthony Downey, Professor of Visual Culture, Birmingham City University
More than a decade after its release, the film Ex Machina has proven a insightful forerunner to current debates about AI.
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By Leo Ziegel, Independent Postdoc Affiliated with the Global & Sexual Health research group (GloSH), Karolinska Institutet
Carl Fredrik Sjöland, PhD Candidate in Global Health Epidemiology, Karolinska Institutet
Young people repeatedly mentioned that adults are not sufficiently involved or do not understand what children and teenagers do online.
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By Tom Ratcliffe, Lecturer in Sustainability, Tourism and Heritage Management, York St John University
Thousands of visitors each year explore the landscapes of the UK’s national parks on foot, through walking, rambling, hiking, mountaineering and, more recently, forest bathing.
Many of the earliest advocates for a national park system were notable walkers. They ranged from Lake District conservationists such as William and Dorothy Wordsworth to the ramblers who staged the Kinder…
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By David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
The growth in sales of electric vehicles is a positive step in the UK’s journey to net zero. They are cleaner, quieter and better for the environment.
But while they produce less pollution, electric vehicles (EVs) also produce far less revenue for the treasury. And as more drivers ditch petrol and diesel, the government’s annual £35 billion…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
A banned weight-loss drug with dangerous cardiac side-effects is being marketed to young people as a natural supplement on social media.
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By Finn McFall, KTP Associate, University of Surrey
Xavier Font, Professor of Sustainability Marketing, University of Surrey
When two people book the same flight, they can get wildly different carbon footprints from online calculators. Many carbon calculators leave out big chunks of climate impact or rely on oversimplified assumptions.
Here’s what’s missing, why it matters and a practical checklist you can use to judge any flight estimate.
1. CO₂ isn’t enough
If a tool only reports in kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO₂), it misses two other groups of emissions:
Carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e) is a metric that converts the impact of other…
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By Markus Gottschling, Research Associate in Rhetoric, University of Tübingen
Nina Kalwa, Research Associate at the Research Center for Science Communication, University of Tübingen
In the new documentary, Babo, viewers watch the gifted yet controversial German rapper Haftbefehl almost destroy himself with cocaine. The documentary, which follows both his huge success and his personal crises, has become the most-viewed film on Netflix Germany – a sign of what gets the country talking.
Haftbefehl (literally meaning “arrest warrant”) is one of Germany’s most famous rappers. He’s known for his brutal and drug-glorifying lyrics. Born Aykut Anhan, he is the…
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By Festival Godwin Boateng, Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford
Travelling on Africa’s roads comes with many challenges. The biggest is arriving at your destination safely. The continent is one of the hotspots of global road trauma. Its traffic deaths account for about one quarter of the global number of victims, despite having less than 4% of the world’s vehicle fleet.
The situation in sub-Saharan Africa is particularly dire. Road…
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By Amanda Gouws, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
Joseph Ayodele Kupolusi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Technology, Akure
For democracies to function well, citizens have to trust their institutions. Every incidence of bad service delivery or corruption will influence how much citizens trust institutions.
The latest incident that will most likely shake confidence in South Africa’s political system, and specifically the police and the criminal justice system, is the accusation by General Nhlanhla…
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