By Paul Coughlan, Professor in Operations Management, Trinity College Dublin
Aonghus McNabola, Deputy Dean International & Professor of Energy and Environmental Engineering
Wastewater heat recovery, which recycles hot water from drains to preheat new water, could cut coal use, lower carbon emissions, and create local jobs in Zambia.
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By Claire Bedelian, Senior Researcher, SPARC Consortium, ODI Global
Guy Jobbins, Executive Director, SPARC Consortium, ODI Global
Africa’s drylands are often imagined as vast, empty spaces. Romantic wilderness on the one hand. Zones of hunger, conflict and poverty on the other. Media stories tend to emphasise crises and scarcity, portraying these regions as peripheral and fragile.
But this narrative obscures a more complex and hopeful reality. Across these landscapes, millions of pastoralists and dryland farmers are constantly adapting, innovating, and building livelihoods in some of the continent’s most variable environments.
Drylands are areas of low rainfall and high temperature that cover
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By Ashraf Patel, Senior Research Associate: Digital Economy, University of South Africa
South Africa’s G20 presidency’s Digital Economy working group tried to make progress on digital inequality, high data costs and weak broadband. How did they do?
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By Lovise Aalen, Research Professor, Political Science, Chr. Michelsen Institute
Mai Azzam, PhD candidate, Bayreuth University
Sudan’s neighbourhood committees represent a unique blend of political and practical action. They mobilise for change while addressing immediate community needs.
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By Mitchell McLarnon, Assistant Professor, Adult Education, Concordia University
Any large-scale policy affecting schools, like Montréal’s ambitious transition to zero waste, needs to reflect that success relies on the labour and care of students and education workers.
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By Anthony Schrapffer, PhD, EDHEC Climate Institute Scientific Director, EDHEC Business School
Coastal regions, where dense clusters of critical infrastructure are found, are facing the sharpest edge of climate change. The threats include paralysed transport networks and disrupted supply chains. To stay ahead, we need a clearer picture of these vulnerabilities that lets us anticipate the fallout before it comes. But right now, patchy data, inconsistent approaches, and the absence of a unified framework make it tough to grasp the scale of the risk.
In late October, the Caribbean was ravaged by Hurricane…
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Wednesday, December 3rd 2025
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, has condemned an Israeli raid on the Union of Agricultural Work Committees in the occupied West Bank, warning that pressure on Palestinian civil society has reached alarming levels.
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Wednesday, December 3rd 2025
For the first time in the country’s history, Syrians are preparing to publicly mark Human Rights Day next week — a small but meaningful step that UN human rights officials say signals a “new chapter” in their engagement with the authorities, and a cautiously optimistic moment for millions seeking change.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image X rolled out a new feature called ''About your account'' as seen displayed on iPhone, November 23, 2025. © 2025 Andre M Chang/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock Since November 21, social media company X has been rolling out a new feature called “About this account,” which displays information about users that was previously not publicly disclosed. This includes the country where an account was created, is based, the date it joined X, and username changes.The company says the feature is intended to verify authenticity and improve transparency, but it raises serious concerns…
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By Abhimanyu Bandyopadhyay
As tremors rippled across Bangladesh, panic sent people fleeing into the streets, yet online debates fixated not on safety but on whether women should cover themselves before escaping collapsing buildings.
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