By Kevin Foster, Associate Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University
Shot, stabbed, poisoned with frog toxin – a new book reveals how the killing of political opponents has emerged from the shadows of government secrecy.
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By Stephanie Kivlin, Associate Professor of Ecology, University of Tennessee
Aimee Classen, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
Lara A. Souza, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma
Over a three-decade experiment in the Rocky Mountains, fungi and plant life fundamentally changed. The result has consequences for cattle and wildlife.
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By Sandeep Pai, Senior Lead, International Energy Transitions and Executive in Residence, Duke University
Jennifer Lee Broadhurst, Professor emeritus, University of Cape Town
The South African government and coal industry need to move fast to set up a plan to turn old coal mines and power stations into job-creating hubs after they close.
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By Kennedy Mkutu, Associate Professor, International Relations, United States International University
Jan Bachmann, Senior Lecturer , University of Gothenburg
The sun is rising in Kenya’s Kajiado county, just outside Nairobi, and a truck is rumbling over dusty ground towards a riverbank. Young men guide the driver to a parking spot and then spring into action, each with a scoop, filling the truck from a heap of the most desirable building sand for which the area is famous.
The driver passes the time with a snack and a mug of tea poured from a flask by a mobile vendor. He pays each of the young men around US$10 for their labour and the landowner US$40-US$50 for the sand. The driver then starts out on his journey to deliver sand to hardware…
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By Debbie Collier, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Transformative Regulation of Work, University of the Western Cape
Communities in South Africa continue to be fractured by service delivery failures, crime and gang-related violence. The impact is felt by families and communities, and in schools,
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By Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University
The end of January 2026 effectively marked the end of party politics in Burkina Faso. On 29 January, Captain Ibrahim Traoré’s government formally dissolved all political parties, including those that had supported his September 2022 coup.
Parties had already been suspended…
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By Kerri Finlay, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Regina
Colin Whitfield, Associate Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
Lauren Bortolotti, Adjunct Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan
The value of wetlands on the landscape cannot be overstated — they store and filter water, provide wildlife habitat, cool the atmosphere and sequester carbon. Yet, in the farmland area of Canada’s Prairies, wetlands are being drained to increase crop production and expand urban development.
While wetlands sequester carbon, they also naturally release greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. That means the impact of wetland drainage on net GHG emissions was previously difficult to determine.
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By Sharda S. Nandram, Full Professor Business & Spirituality & Hindu Spirituality & Society, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Puneet K. Bindlish, Assistant Professor - Hindu Spirituality - Spiritual Care, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Raysa Geaquinto Rocha, Lecturer at the University of Essex and Assistant Professor at the VU Amsterdam, European Academy of Management (EURAM)
Silver economy: an in-home help service provider in the Netherlands is revolutionising care delivery for the elderly with a streamlined, patient-centred approach that trusts community nurses and caregivers.
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By Anthony Wong, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Immunology, University of British Columbia
The key players of our immune system aren’t well understood. Here’s how vaccines give our immune players a home advantage to fight infection.
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By Marc-Andre Gutscher, Directeur de Recherche CNRS, géophysique marine, Université de Bretagne occidentale
Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of the Earth’s surface it is all but impossible. However, the vast network of undersea cables that crisscross the world’s seas could soon change this. As well as transmitting data around the planet, they can also monitor the tectonic movements that cause earthquakes and tsunamis.
The “Fibre Optic Cable Use for Seafloor” project (FOCUS) has demonstrated how we can use existing fibre-optic…
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