By Ali Nazemi, Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University
Snow is Canada’s hidden reservoir. Each winter, the precipitation it brings is stored not behind dams, but across mountains, forests and prairies as snowpack. When temperatures rise, that stored water melts and is released gradually, sustaining rivers, groundwater, ecosystems, agriculture and hydropower.
This seasonal storage underpins water security across much of the country. Prairie agriculture depends heavily on mountain snowpack for irrigation. The Great Lakes basin relies on snowmelt to sustain spring inflows that support navigation, ecosystems and freshwater withdrawals. Hydropower…
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By Jutta Treviranus, Director & Professor, Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
Systems designed with those who face the greatest barriers are more resilient, adaptive and stable. And in the end, they benefit everyone when the unpredictable happens.
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By Amélie Beaudet, Paléoanthropologue (CNRS), Université de Poitiers
Dominic Stratford, Professor of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand
What did the face of our ancestors looks like 3 million years ago? Meet the reconstructed skull of “Little Foot” which provides valuable insights into how our ancestors adapted to their environment.
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By Federico Donelli, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Trieste
The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in March 2026 marks the end of a political era in the Middle Eastern country. Khamenei was killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s capital, Tehran. This has triggered a war drawing in numerous countries across the Middle East.
The Horn of Africa and Red Sea regions, which link Africa…
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By Mandla Bhuda, Senior Lecturer: Public Health, University of South Africa
Janine Wichmann, Professor, University of Pretoria
Joyce Shirinde, Associate Professor, University of Pretoria
The use of polluting household fuels and gas was associated with an increased likelihood of eczema, followed by severe asthma symptoms.
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By Timothy Clack, Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow, University of Oxford
Shadreck Chirikure, Prof of Archaeological Science & British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford
Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they have colonised spaces and other people or forms of life.
In Africa, colonialism has mostly been studied as something imposed from outside, for example from Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. A recent special issue of the journal Azania sought to address…
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By Michael Johan von Maltitz, Associate Professor, Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of the Free State
Students had to compile a portfolio and discuss it in an interview to demonstrate their understanding and ability to apply the knowledge.
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By Arce Domingo Relloso, Profesora en Ciencia de Datos en Biotecnología, IE University
Pablo Juan-Salvadores, Coordinador Técnico Unidad de Investigación Cardiovascular, Hospital Álvaro Cunqueiro, Vigo. Grupo de Investigación Cardiovascular, Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias Galicia Sur (IIS Galicia Sur), SERGAS-UVIGO, Vigo, España., Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur
In an unprecedented collaboration, the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the World Heart Federation have issued a joint statement calling for immediate action against environmental stressors – pollution, noise, climate stress – to reduce cardiovascular mortality.
The article, which was published simultaneously in the European Heart Journal and other leading publications, warns that we must address climate change and pollution…
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By Tony D Sampson, Reader in Digital Communication, University of Essex
Against rising adult concern about child sexual abuse content and children’s mental health, recent calls to follow Australia and ban under-16s from accessing social media in the UK are understandable. It reflects genuine parental anxiety about online harms.
These harms are not abstract. Research shows that young people are exposed to violent misogynistic cultures and toxic manospheres online.
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By Matt Barr, Senior Lecture in International Relations, Nottingham Trent University
The so-called “special relationship” between the UK and the US appears to be at its lowest ebb for decades. As he sat alongside the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, at a White House press call on March 3, Donald Trump bitterly criticised Keir Starmer for his refusal to let the US use British bases to launch initial strikes on Iran.
Declaring he was “not happy with the UK”, he added: “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.” Churchill was, of course, the first person to talk of a special relationship…
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