By Javier Martín Vide, Catedrático de Geografía Física, Universitat de Barcelona
2025’s rainy spring has brought a swift end to the droughts plaguing several Spanish regions, restoring ecosystems to parched fields, reviving withered trees and shrubs, and bringing back a lush, green landscape not seen for a long time. It has also placed the country’s reservoir levels much higher the averages of the last decade.
At the same time, drought has spread across central…
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By Natalie Spadafora, Research Associate, Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University
Magdalena Janus, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
Results of a study suggest policy improvements are needed to provide educators with strategies to reduce bias around race, gender and socioeconomic status.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Officers from the German Federal Police take a man on a deportation flight to Pakistan. Frankfurt, February 25, 2025. © 2025 Boris Roessler/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Photo The European Commission has published a proposal that would allow EU member states to send asylum seekers to countries with which they have no connection, on the basis of procedures with limited safeguards and illusory promises of respect for human rights. Applied systematically, this could eviscerate the right to asylum in the European Union.The May 20 proposal stretches the dubious logic of…
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
In Gaza, dozens of Palestinians have been reportedly injured and shot trying to collect aid from the new US and Israeli-backed aid distribution facility operating independently of the UN.
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By Heidi Riley, Adjunct Research Fellow, University College Dublin, and Affiliate Researcher in the Department of War Studies, King's College London
Attempts to encourage peaceful dialogue are hampered by the generational legacies of ethnic conflict, including South Sudan’s long history of violent cattle raiding.
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By Patricia Yárnoz Esquíroz, Profesor Clínico Asociado, Universidad de Navarra
More and more people over the age of 50 are taking up physical exercise. Medical associations resoundingly agree that this is a good thing. Physical exercise is not only key to disease prevention, it is also a recommended part of treatment for many illnesses.
However, starting to move at this stage of life requires some care. This is especially true for those who have not previously been physically active, or for…
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By Eric Lepp, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Waterloo
Ice hockey in Belfast is a spectator sport with no deep history on either side of the Protestant-Catholic conflict. It’s a neutral ground where fans from different backgrounds come together.
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By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol
A friend of mine came to see me recently complaining of an odd ache he’d noted in his lower abs and groin. He couldn’t blame it on crunches at the gym, nor a cow kicking him in the belly again (he’s a farmer). But he does spend a fair amount of his time on the football pitch and was now noticing that every training session and match was bringing the pain on – sometimes agonisingly so.
The diagnosis? A sports hernia. This condition also goes by many other names, including athletic pubalgia and Gilmore’s groin – after the late British…
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By Oliver Swainston, Research Assistant, RAND Europe
Chris Carter, Analyst, Science and Emerging Technology Team, RAND Europe
The search for extraterrestrial life has long gone back and forth between scientific curiosity, public fascination and outright scepticism. Recently, scientists claimed the “strongest evidence” of life on a distant exoplanet – a world outside our solar system.
Grandiose headlines often promise proof that we are not alone, but scientists remain cautious. Is this caution unique to the field of astrobiology? In truth, major scientific breakthroughs are rarely accepted quickly.
Newton’s…
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By Neil Beasley, PhD Candidate in Business and Law, Liverpool John Moores University
Madeleine Pickles, Reader in Organisational Transformation and Teaching Innovation, Liverpool John Moores University
Since the start of his second term in office, US president Donald Trump has cultivated a political atmosphere that discourages freedom of thought. He also actively villainises and punishes any dissenting opinion. Worryingly, this atmosphere looks like it is spreading across other democracies.
Commentators have described Trump as both narcissistic…
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