By Sylvain Amoros, Adjunct Professor, Department of Marketing, HEC Montréal
Sylvain Senecal, Professor of Marketing and RBC Financial Group Chair of E-Commerce, HEC Montréal
For decades, banks have presented themselves as leaders in sustainability. Yet, their outsized digital carbon footprints tell a different story.
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By Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez, Lecturer in Ecology, University of Southampton
October is bats’ time in the spotlight, although they are mostly portrayed as spooky and creepy. The truth is, bats are more likely to help you than harm you.
Since I first saw a bat as an undergraduate student more than 20 years ago, I was captivated by these enigmatic and “weird” animals. The more I learn, the more I am amazed by their uniqueness and extraordinary adaptations. Here are seven fascinating facts that reveal the truth behind the many misunderstandings people still have about bats.
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By Richard Whitman, Member of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Despite exhaustive discussions, neither the EU or the US has come up with any really substantial measures to boost Ukraine’s defence.
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By Ben L Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
The UN’s top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), demanded that Israel allow aid into Gaza in an advisory opinion on October 22. It held that Israel is in breach of its obligations as a UN member state by having failed to do so adequately over the past two years.
The opinion was requested ten months ago by the UN general assembly after Israel’s parliament banned the UN Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) from operating in territories occupied by the country. Unrwa…
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By Farinaz Basmechi, Doctoral researcher, Feminist and Gender Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Through the years, the work of women journalists in the Middle East has gone far beyond reporting news and has become a vital force for truth and justice.
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By Amnesty International
The conviction and sentencing of Mali’s former Prime Minister Moussa Mara to two years in prison, one of which is mandatory, and a fine of 500,000 CFA francs (762 euro), including 1 symbolic franc to the Malian state on charges of discrediting the state among others is a travesty of justice, Amnesty International said, as […] The post Mali: Authorities must immediately release former Prime Minister Moussa Mara and stop crackdown on civil and political rights appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Sally Christine Reynolds, Associate Professor in Hominin Palaeoecology, Bournemouth University
Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the fingers.
In the journal Nature, researchers describe the set of 1.5-million-year-old fossils from a site in Kenya that includes the first unambiguous Paranthropus hand bones identified in the fossil record.…
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By Kayla Kolff, Postdoctoral researcher, Osnabrück University
Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is rare. Yet, a recent study of an orangutan treating a wound with a medicinal plant provides a promising lead.
Chimpanzees, for example, are known to lick their wounds and sometimes press leaves onto them, but these behaviours are still only partly understood. We still do not know how often these actions occur, whether they…
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By Beverley O'Hara, Lecturer in Nutrition, Leeds Beckett University
‘Ultra-processed’ has become a moral label, not a scientific one. Research shows why the term could be causing confusion, guilt and misinformation.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Brain aneurysms often go unnoticed until they rupture. Kim Kardashian’s disclosure is drawing attention to key risks and new approaches to prevention.
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