By Maria Strack, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo
Canada is home to a quarter of the world’s remaining wetlands. Despite decades of efforts, wetlands continue to be under threat around the world.
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By Liam Anderson
“These boys dream, feel, and think about the world. We need to stop seeing them as a threat and start seeing them as a potential.”
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By Deniz Torcu, Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media, IE University
As anti-immigration rhetoric surges across Europe and the United States, it is vital that we look beyond the fearmongering and analyse what is really going on. While human mobility is often presented as a burden, the truth is quite the opposite. It is an essential driver of economic growth, demographic resilience and cultural cohesion.
Ignoring this fact is not just a miscalculation – it flies in the face of both empirical evidence and the democratic principles that modern societies claim to defend.
Migration is also not a 21st century anomaly. From the Mediterranean diasporas…
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By Dana Zartner, Professor of International Studies, University of San Francisco
Approaches vary in terms of who is filing the lawsuit, against whom, and whether it is based on protecting human rights or the rights of the environment itself.
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By Andrej Prša, Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Science, Villanova University
It takes a supercomputer weeks to output the properties of one stellar binary. A new study shows AI can do it in a fraction of the time.
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By Corey Hutchins, Manager, Colorado College Journalism Institute, Colorado College
News about the news used to be commonplace, but as news organizations have vanished, so has this type of reporting.
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By Alex H. Poole, Associate Professor of Information Science, Drexel University
Trump’s sudden dismissal of Carla Hayden, the librarian appointed by former President Barack Obama, has placed the little-known Library of Congress in the spotlight.
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By Güneş Murat Tezcür, Professor and Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
A scholar of religious minorities and the Middle East explains the historical persecution and marginalization of the Alawite and Druze communities.
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By Erran Carmel, Professor of Business, American University Kogod School of Business
Joseph Garbowski, Master's student, American University
In the first months of Donald Trump’s second term as president, his policies – from sweeping tariffs and aggressive immigration enforcement to attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion – have thrown U.S. businesses into turmoil, leading to a 26-point decline in CEO confidence.
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By Lisa Cuchara, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Quinnipiac University
Most pool-related illnesses won’t kill you, but no one wants to spend their vacation or a week of beautiful summer days in the bathroom.
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