By Luke Jeffrey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Southern Cross University
Chris Greening, Professor, Microbiology, Monash University
Damien Maher, Professor in Earth Sciences, Southern Cross University
Pok Man Leung, Research Fellow in Microbiology, Monash University
We already knew forests were heavy lifters in reducing climate pollution. New research reveals the tiny microbes in tree bark can also “eat” climate gases.
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Thursday, January 8, 2026
The UN Human Rights Council – the world’s principal defender of vulnerable people worldwide – has elected an Indonesian diplomat to be President for 2026 in a first for the country.
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By Valerie L. Myers, Organizational Psychologist and Lecturer in Management and Organizations, University of Michigan
Centuries of management practice were built on cruelty and exploitation. But history also offers a countercurrent – leaders who chose care, fairness and conscience.
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By Wayne Unger, Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
Child sexual abuse material on X is clearly illegal. What’s less clear is how to force X to prevent its AI chatbot from making the material.
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By Alejandro N. Flores, Associate Professor of Geoscience, Boise State University
A major atmospheric river brought record precipitation to the Pacific Northwest, yet the snow and water supply still suffered. It’s a growing problem.
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By Jennifer Singh, Associate Professor of Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology
Health and medicine is more than just biological – societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory. Health and illness are our experiments in uncovering meaning, power and inequality, and how it affects all parts of a person’s life.
For example, why do low-income communities continue…
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By Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Hamilton College
Though they lived centuries apart, Aristotle and Tsunetomo both explored what it means to live virtuously, and the risks of wanting praise or recognition.
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By Anna Storti, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies and Asian American Studies, Duke University
Asian Americans have drawn parallels between today’s attacks on Latinos and a historically exclusive immigration policy that favors some families over others.
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By Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola, Senior Research Associate, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
For the first time, countries now have a shared way to understand whether the world is actually improving at adapting to climate impacts.
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By Sharthi Laldaparsad, PhD Student, University of Pretoria
Nerhene Davis, Ass Prof in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria
Serena Coetzee, Head of Resource Nexus Programme (Education), United Nations University
“Turn right after the first big tree; my house is the one with the yellow door.” In parts of South Africa, where settlements have grown without formal urban planning due to rapid urbanisation, that could well be a person’s “address”.
Having an address has many purposes. Not only does it allow you to find a place or person you want to visit, it’s compulsory in South Africa to provide an address when opening a bank account and registering as a voter in elections. Address locations are used to plan the delivery of services…
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