By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more fire prone.
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By Peter Tregear, Principal Fellow and Professor of Music, The University of Melbourne
Opera singer, producer and librettist Caitlin Vincent explores big questions about her art form in Opera Wars – a lively book bristling with ideas.
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By Adam Hartland, Adjunct Associate Professor in Freshwater Biogeochemistry, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Two million people drink water from the Waikato. But the river is degrading as pollution and invasive clams spread faster than monitoring protocols can detect.
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By Kim Holzmann, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Würzburg, at the Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg
Insects make up to 90% of all animal species on the planet, and most of them can be found in the tropics, the regions around the equator. Yet we still know surprisingly little about how these species will cope with rising temperatures driven by climate change.
I am an animal ecologist, studying how organisms respond to climate change. My research aims to provide…
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By Kristof Titeca, Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
Bobi Wine’s escape from Uganda is not just a striking episode in itself, it also offers insight into the current state of the opposition – particularly his National Unity Platform party – and into the divergences within the Yoweri Museveni regime.
The Ugandan opposition leader had been in hiding for almost two months after the…
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By Ian Caistor-Parker, PhD student, University of Warwick
Characteristics that would come to define Mau Mau camps – neglect, forced labour and ill-health – were ingrained long before 1952.
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By Danny Bradlow, Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
The sad truth is that African countries cannot avoid being harmed by the current Gulf war. But they can make efforts to emerge from the crisis in a better place.
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By Sarah Barfield Marks, PhD Researcher, Department of Psychology, University of Bath
Addressing the issue requires getting frequent flyers to shift from planes to trains, but also asking wider questions about where we want to go and why.
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By Adam Coutts, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
The government’s new social cohesion action plan, Protecting What Matters, is frank about its urgency: “Social cohesion is … not just a good in and of itself. It is also a vital front in the resilience of our national security.”
The 2024 Southport attacks and subsequent…
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By Elizabeth Baisley, Assistant Professor, political studies, Queen's University, Ontario
Francesco MacAllister-Caruso, PhD Candidate, political science, Concordia University
Quinn M. Albaugh, Assistant Professor, political studies, Queen's University, Ontario
Trans people are consistently undercounted in data thanks to flawed practices in collection, analysis and sharing. And if we don’t fix this, policy and advocacy will fail to address their needs.
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