By Jen Kostuchuk, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Victoria
Anelyse Weiler, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Victoria
Old-school masculinity provides a cultural script that eschews emotion and disregards health and safety in favour of toughness, rugged individualism. That’s changing.
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By Eva Enders, professeure d'écologie de poisson, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Nour El Houda Bejaoui, Etudiante à la maîtrise en sciences de l’eau, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
As rivers warm, reforesting their banks could help Atlantic salmon. A new method makes it possible to identify priority areas.
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By Ali Ataya, Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
In the US, up to 900,000 people are affected by severe blood clots each year, and over 60,000 die from it annually.
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By Lesedi Senamele Matlala, Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Public Policy, Monitoring and Evaluations, University of Johannesburg
More than 345,000 grade 12 learners in South Africa qualified for university entrance in the 2025 school leaving exam – 46% of those who passed. This was the largest number yet, more than double the figure a decade earlier.
But qualifying for university and being ready for university are not the same thing.
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By Matt Clark, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Environmental Social Sciences, University of Sydney
Climate change is amplifying extreme weather conditions across southern Africa. Dry seasons are getting hotter and drier, while rains are becoming heavier and more concentrated. This means greater swings between production surplus and scarcity for rural communities that make their living from the land.
I’m a scientist…
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By Stephanie-Emmy Klarmann, Research associate, University of Johannesburg
Alexandra Schnell, Research Fellow in Comparative Psychology, University of Cambridge
Angie Elwin, Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
Neil D’Cruze, Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
A three-year study of 34 South African captive lion venues found poor welfare conditions, early separation of cubs from mothers and hours of handling by tourists.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Politicians from across the parliament paid tribute to the highly respected member for Indi, who remains in hospital following an alleged attack.
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By Amnesty International
My journey into human rights activism was forged in the blood that stained the pavement of Trisakti University. In my teenage years, my mother got me involved in organizing assistance for people living in poverty. I began to witness the stark socio-economic disparities that existed under former president Suharto, amid widespread corruption and state repression. […] The post I am targeted by the military because I work for Amnesty, but I refuse to let fear win appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Displaced women and girls walk through the vast IDP site in Tawila, Sudan, February 23rd, 2026. © 2026 Giles Clarke/Avaaz via Getty Images “It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October 2025 takeover.For 18 months, the RSF laid siege to the city, digging a trench around it in its final months, forcing starving residents to survive on animal fodder, until even that ran out. In the siege’s final weeks, the RSF increasingly…
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By Laura
Young people are deemed mature enough to elect their leaders, yet not to replace them. They drive political movements forward by voting, advocating, campaigning, and protesting, yet cannot run for office themselves.
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