By Alice Carter-Champion, Researcher, Paleoceanography, Royal Holloway, University of London
Fangjingcheng Zhu, PhD Candidate, Paleoceanography, University of Southampton
Jack Wharton, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Paleoceanography, UCL
Around 13,000 years ago, as the world was emerging from the grip of the last ice age, much of the North Atlantic region plunged back into near-glacial conditions.
Sea ice expanded across the North Atlantic, reaching as far south as the Shetland Islands. Glaciers began to regrow in the Scottish Highlands, while winter temperatures across Europe and North America plummeted. Yet off the coast of Atlantic Canada, the ocean did the opposite.
In our new study, published in the journal
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By Bernard Hay, Director of Policy at the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, Newcastle University
Skills matter enormously when it comes to retaining the UK’s global competitiveness in the creative industries. Forecasts suggest that demand for additional jobs in the sector is set to grow in the coming years. But does the UK’s creative workforce possess the required skills to meet this demand?
In May 2026, I co-authored a report called the Creative…
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By Global Voices Brazil
Four years ago, a group of activists sued to demand the use of shirt number 24 in the national team. The 2022 World Cup was the first time it appeared officially.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Representatives of the Merauke indigenous community with Yasinta Moiwend (center) protested in Jakarta against the large-scale rice field development project that threatens their land in Indonesia, 2025. © 2025 Greenpeace On May 23, the well-known Indonesian activist Yasinta Moiwend went missing from her home in Merauke, South Papua, according to her family. Mama Yasinta, as she is known, has long defended the rights of Papua’s Marind-Anim Indigenous community. She features prominently in a widely celebrated documentary on abuses and land grabs targeting…
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
For many men with prostate cancer, the word “radiotherapy” still conjures up weeks of daily hospital trips: 20 or more sessions, Monday to Friday, for a month or longer. A new NHS England programme aims to shrink that burden dramatically by offering eligible men a highly focused form of radiotherapy that treats the cancer in just five sessions.
It sounds almost too good…
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By John Caro, Principal Lecturer, Film and Media, University of Portsmouth
Since her official debut in 1959, Supergirl has struggled to emerge from the shadow of her cousin, Superman. So it’s a bold move that the second cinematic release in the newly rebooted DC Universe will be Supergirl.
Milly Alcock first appeared as Supergirl in the epilogue to Superman (2025). Her Supergirl is a brash “party girl” – an immediate contrast to David…
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By Shirvin Zeinalzadeh, Graduate Teaching Associate, School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University
Iran’s team faces a hostile reception from the US government and some of its brethren in the diaspora. Yet others hope the event will trump politics — for now.
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By Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy, Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
It’s showtime! …Erecting a mixed martials arts arena at the White House and hinting that it might just become a permanent fixture is a nod to power that draws on force and spectacle.
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By Steve Conlan, Professor and Head of the School of Life Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
Mirvetuximab soravtansine (also known as Elahere) is the first new drug to be approved for hard-to-treat ovarian cancer in over 20 years.
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By Kate Harrington, PhD Candidate, Ecology, Trinity College Dublin
Laqiqige Zhu, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Finance, Trinity College Dublin
Ireland’s native woodland scheme, which was introduced by the government in 2001, is successfully bringing back biodiversity. But the country still struggles to meet its tree-planting targets. The reason? Policy doesn’t always match the economic realities farmers face.
Ireland should be a forestry success story. The climate is mild, the soil is fertile and trees grow faster here than almost anywhere else in Europe. Yet despite ambitious government targets and generous public subsidies, the country remains…
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