By Casper Laing Ebbensgaard, Lecturer in Human Geography, University of East Anglia
When you look at the promotional materials advertising luxury high-rise developments in London, it is obvious that the fantasy of living in the sky is fused by a desire for sunlight and “unobstructed” views of the city. Phrases such as “the brightest addition to London’s skyline” or apartments being “flooded with natural light” and offering “expansive sky views” are common.
It is a dream with a dark side, however, which plays out below in the shadows of London’s mushrooming cityscape. In a recent…
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By Adriana Marin, Lecturer in International Relations, Coventry University
When Claudia Sheinbaum — Mexico’s first woman president — was publicly groped during a walkabout recently, her response was striking in its restraint: “If this happens to the president, where does that leave all the young women in our country?”
The phrase ricocheted across Mexico and beyond. It captured both the routine nature of gendered harassment and the profound political…
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By Claire Hughes, Professor of Psychology, Deputy Director of the Centre For Family Research, University of Cambridge
George Gillett, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Luke McGuire, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter
Generation Alpha is the largest generation ever. Totalling two billion children, it encompasses anybody currently aged 0-15 years old – those born between 2010 and 2025.
This is the first fully digitally native generation, with many children already achieving unprecedented levels of digital literacy. It is predicted they will become the most educated generation in history: 90% are expected to complete secondary school worldwide,…
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By Kate Whitman, Research Fellow, Ethical Consumption, Revolution Plastics Institute, University of Portsmouth
Cressida Bowyer, Associate Professor in Arts and Sustainability, University of Portsmouth
Steve Fletcher, Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth
Plastic pollution is often hidden in plain sight – behind positive “eco” or “recyclable” labels, within supply chains and under the convenience of online shopping.
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By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales
David Poole, Professor of Kinesiology and Physiology, Kansas State University
Vaughan Macefield, Professor, Neuroscience, Monash University
Despite claims of being humane and painless, the use of nitrogen gas for executions and assisted suicide causes air hunger, panic and violent physiological distress.
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By Michael Jacobs, Professor of Political Economy, University of Sheffield
It is easy to be cynical about the annual circus of UN climate negotiations that takes place at “Cop” – the Conference of the Parties to the UN’s climate convention.
As delegates gather in the Amazonian port of Belém, Brazil for this year’s Cop30, familiar complaints have returned: the summits are too big and bureaucratic, and aren’t making enough progress. After three decades of annual conferences, global emissions are still rising – and critics…
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By William Crozier, Duns Scotus Assistant Professor of Franciscan Studies, Durham University
During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and colour to show that the stars and planets are made of the same elements found here on Earth. In so doing he challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day and pre-empted the methods and discoveries of the 21st-century James Webb space telescope.
Following the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, medieval physics affirmed that the stars and planets were made from a special celestial…
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By Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
Palestine 36 helps illuminate events in modern-day Palestine through recounting key historical events of its past that are often overlooked.
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By Matthew W. Kreuter, Kahn Family Professor of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis
Rachel Garg, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis
As the government shutdown wore on in October, calls began surging, signaling that Americans are very concerned about paying their bills and feeding their families.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2025. © 2025 Lian Yi/Xinhua via Getty Images On November 7, the United States failed to participate in its UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process where the human rights record of every member state is reviewed by other states. No UN member state has failed to be reviewed since its creation in 2006.The US decision to disengage from this vital process is particularly concerning given the deteriorating human rights situation in the country. Since the beginning of its term, the Trump administration…
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