By Anmar Pretorius, Professor of Economics, North-West University
Mariëtte Geyser, Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Economics, North-West University
The super El Niño could push up South African maize prices, but large grain stocks will help limit price rises.
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By Adrià San José Plana, Recognised Researcher Earth Sciences - Global Health Resilience, Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS); Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Xavier Rodo, ICREA Research Professor, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)
Climate does more than shape the weather. It can influence when and where infectious diseases emerge by changing how disease-carrying vectors and animal hosts survive and behave. Scientists use weather data to anticipate some disease risks days or weeks ahead. But forecasting how those risks will change across seasons and years remains difficult. We asked Adrià San José Plana, a researcher in infectious disease modelling, and Xavier Rodó, a research professor and founding director of the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences in Barcelona, about their recent research.
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By Clara Bueno Lopez, DPhil Candidate, Neurodegenerative Disorders, University of Oxford
Why do smokers get Parkinson’s less often? New evidence from half a million adults in China points to carbon monoxide, not smoking itself.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A woman holds a sign reading "We demand due process for the innocent. No to injustice" during a protest against the state of emergency imposed by the government since March 2022, in San Salvador, El Salvador, on March 24, 2026. © 2026 AFP via Getty Images (Washington, DC) – Since early 2026, Salvadoran courts have begun convicting people in mass trials of hundreds of defendants at a time, relying on weak evidence and giving them no real chance to defend themselves, Human Rights Watch said today. For months, courts in El Salvador have held mass trials of…
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By Jillian C. York
If the Arab Spring was defined by optimism about what the internet could do, the years since have been marked by a more sober understanding of what it takes to defend it
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By Shirleene Robinson, Visiting Fellow, School of Communication, University of Technology Sydney
Noah Riseman, Adjunct Professor, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
The apology, along with the news that personnel and veterans can apply to have historical homosexual convictions extinguished from their records, are an overdue step in a long journey
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By Meredith Rossner, Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
Janet Hope, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Canberra
Lorana Bartels, Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
Miranda Forsyth, Professor in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University
Sally Eales, Research Fellow, Restorative Justice, Australian National University
The Cornell 7 case has brought renewed scrutiny to how universities respond to sexual assault. In Australia, National survey results suggest about one in six students have experienced sexual harassment since starting university, while one in 20 have experienced sexual assault.
But we know the overwhelming majority of students who experience…
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By Asbel Bohigues, Profesor de Ciencia Política, Universitat de València
On October 5, Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez called a snap general election for November 29, bringing the vote forward by 10 months.
One of the main advantages of being in government is the ability to shape the political agenda. Spain’s system also grants incumbent leaders the power to call (or not call) early elections. So why is Sánchez calling elections now?
On the face of it, it seems like like odd timing, as Sánchez’s Socialist party (the PSOE) and the government it leads have been under intense pressure for months.
The inner circles of both the…
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By Flavio Menezes, Professor of Economics, Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics, The University of Queensland
Inspired by New York, a Greens’ research thinktank is proposing a new national chain of public supermarkets. An economist explains the gaps in its $25 billion cost.
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By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
Turkey and Pakistan are poised to send troops to Saudi Arabia, but so far the Trump administration has avoided getting involved.
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