By Daria Dergacheva
The December 2024 catastrophe left the Krasnodar resort town without tourists. Hotel bookings for June-July 2025 dropped by 30-70 percent compared to the same period last summer.
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By Jun Wang, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
As wildfire smoke becomes a frequent summer hazard across large parts of the US, knowing the risk at the neighborhood scale matters for human health.
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By Jun Wang, Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Iowa
As wildfire smoke becomes a frequent summer hazard across large parts of the US, knowing the risk at the neighborhood scale matters for human health.
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
Identity has become so politicized, so misused — often to divide, to dehumanize — that I find myself repelled by the idea of being tied to a single nation, language, history, or ethnicity.
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By Ivania Inyange
The armed conflict in Sudan seems to be one of the world's most forgotten civil wars. The reigning silence surrounding this conflict plunges the population into daily turmoil.
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
The charges for which Istanbul's popular former mayor received a sentence — which stem from comments he made in January — predate his arrest.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Cambodians who fled Thai-Cambodian border clashes line up to receive assistance in Oddar Meanchey province, Cambodia, July 25, 2025. © 2025 Heng Sinith/AP Photo (Bangkok) – Escalating border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia involving explosive weapons have killed and injured civilians since fighting began on July 24, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The two countries have longstanding border disputes, but there has been no serious military engagement since 2011.Cambodia and Thailand have each accused the other of starting the fighting. The Thai Armed Forces…
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By Rezwan
A wave of viral fever has swept through Dhaka, overwhelming hospitals. Families are struggling to cope, while Facebook overflows with stories of pain, exhaustion, and desperate pleas for help.
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By Melanie Beasley, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University
Scientists long thought that Neanderthals were avid meat eaters. Based on chemical analysis of Neanderthal remains, it seemed like they’d been feasting on as much meat as apex predators such as lions and hyenas. But as a group, hominins – that’s Neanderthals, our species and other extinct close relatives – aren’t specialized flesh eaters. Rather, they’re more omnivorous, eating plenty of plant foods, too.
It is possible for humans to subsist on a very carnivorous diet. In fact, many traditional northern hunter–gatherers…
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Friday, July 25, 2025
The world is facing a “moral crisis” marked by rising authoritarianism, deepening inequality and a dangerous indifference to human suffering, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns in a powerful address on human rights.
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