By Rebecca Carey, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania
An underwater eruption has spread vast ‘rafts’ of pumice through the Bismarck Sea, hampering marine travel and wreaking uncertain long-term consequences.
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By Michael Anthony Connor, Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Andrew Bennett, Emeritus Professor in Ecology, La Trobe University
Birdwatching is one of the most common and popular ways people experience nature. But it’s not often that even the most enthusiastic birdwatcher returns to the same place more than 800 times to witness the changes over four decades.
In a recent paper, we documented 40 years of change in the bird life of a suburban park in Melbourne. Long-term studies such as this, often by citizen scientists, play a vital role in understanding the extent and nature of transitions in bird populations and their implications.
Australians…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image US President Donald Trump (center-right) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center-left) during a bilateral meeting at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on December 29, 2025. © 2025 Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Buried in the US$1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act is a provision that would deepen US military cooperation with Israel while walling that cooperation off from further congressional oversight.Section 219 (formerly section 224) creates the role of an “executive agent” focused on folding Israeli technology…
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By John Sorabji, Associate Professor of Law, UCL
Proposed solutions focused too much on reducing the cost and complexity of civil court procedures, rather than improving legal literacy.
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By Kira Lancker, Assistant Professor - Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
Navigating the benefits and risks of eating fish is a daily concern for consumers in Kenya due to persistent environmental pollution. How much are they influenced by nutritional labelling and guidelines?
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By Emmanuelle Vaast, Professor of Information Systems, McGill University
Renée Sieber, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, McGill University
Will you be flagged at the border? Will your mortgage application be approved? During wartime, whose neighbourhood would a weapon system target? These are moral choices — about harm and fairness — and they used to be made by people.
Now moral choices like these are made by artificial intelligence (AI) and by the companies developing it. Not government, not the public, but corporations.
Chris Olah, co-founder of the AI company Anthropic and a self-described atheist, recently sat beside Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican and said…
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By Frédéric Dimanche, Professor and former Director (2015-2025), Ted Rogers School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Millions of World Cup visitors come from countries where tipping isn’t customary. A hospitality management professor explains what that means for service workers in Canada.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A girl walks to school at an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in the northwestern Idlib province in Syria, near the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, on January 6, 2023. © 2023 Rami al Sayed/AFP via Getty Images Syria’s 14-year conflict destroyed vast swathes of the country and killed hundreds of thousands, but it also left behind over 1.5 million Syrians with war-caused disabilities.Syria’s minister of social affairs, Hind Kabawat, acknowledged this dire situation on June 9 at a UN meeting on the rights of persons with disabilities in New…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Offices of the Attorney General’s Office in Manta, Ecuador, January 29, 2024. © 2024 API Ariel OCHOA (Washington, DC) – A prosecutor in the Ecuadorian coastal city of Manta was shot and killed on June 14, 2026, the most recent in a series of killings of judicial officials in Ecuador, Human Rights Watch said today. Gloria Alexandra Bravo Cedeño is the third prosecutor to be killed in Manta since 2022. Ecuadorian authorities should ensure a prompt, credible, and impartial investigation into the death of the prosecutor and take urgent measures to protect judicial…
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By Sven Bilén, Professor of Engineering Design, Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, Penn State
Wangda Zuo, Professor of Architectural Engineering, Penn State
A data center could get more solar power and be kept much colder in space, but it would be extremely difficult to repair and update.
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