By Meilan Yan, Senior Lecturer in Financial Economics, Loughborough University
Qiuhua Liang, Professor of Water Engineering, Loughborough University
Imagine waking up to find your living room underwater for the second time in five years. You try to claim insurance, only to be told your property is now uninsurable. Premiums have tripled. Your mortgage lender is concerned. And your biggest asset, your home, is rapidly losing value.
This isn’t just a personal disaster. It’s a warning sign of a much broader crisis.
The risks associated with climate change are breaking the insurance industry. In the past decade alone, flood frequency has increased…
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By Alice Vernon, Lecturer in Creative Writing and 19th-Century Literature, Aberystwyth University
Never before had death affected so many people at once, and taken so many young men in the prime of their life.
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By José María Bodoque, Investigador en modelización hidrológica e hidráulica, hidromorfología y evaluación del riesgo por inundación, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
On October 29 2024, destructive storms hit several areas of the Iberian peninsula, causing the most extreme rainfall recorded in Spain during the 21st century.
According to the Spanish State Meteorology Agency (AEMET), they were caused by a mass of cold air at high altitude between the Gulf of Cádiz and the Gibraltar Strait, which pushed very humid air from the Mediterranean towards the coast. Storms formed in chains,…
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By Amnesty International
An Amnesty International delegation will join abortion providers and defenders from across the globe at two gatherings in Bogotá, Colombia, to review progress on expanding access to safe abortions and to discuss new strategies to counter rising threats to human rights. The delegation will take part in a number of panels at the Latin American […] The post Global: Amnesty delegation meets abortion defenders as backlash against human rights intensifies appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Benghazi International Stadium, Libya, May 11, 2025. © 2025 Abdullah Doma/AFP via Getty Images On the evening of October 10, two European football giants played a friendly match amid much fanfare in the newly renovated Benghazi International Stadium, to the spectators’ delight. Altético Madrid beat Internazionale Milan 4-3 in a penalty shootout to take home the “Reconstruction Cup.” The teams reportedly received €3 million each.The catch? The match was hosted by Khalifa Hiftar, commander of the abusive armed group the Libyan Arab Armed…
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By Andrew van der Vlies, Professor, English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
Zoë Wicomb’s first book, You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987), is a tour through episodes in the life of a writer-character, Frieda Shenton. She’s not unlike but crucially not exactly like Wicomb (child of South Africa’s Namaqualand, graduate of what is now the University of the Western Cape, expatriated to Britain, both at an angle to and in love with her homeland).
It ends with a self-reflexive reckoning with the costs of writing. Writing about what – or who – you know…
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By Ana Fernandez Mosquera, Doctora en Filología Inglesa. Miembro ILINGUA. Proyectos Internacionales de Investigación (OPI UVIGO), Universidade de Vigo
In many of Austen’s novels, going out in the rain meant risking illness or death. Was this really the case?
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By John Haddad, Professor of American Studies, Penn State
Walk into any grocery store to stock up for Halloween and you will discover that, for chocolate treats, you have two basic choices:
Will it be Mars or Hershey?
I often buy both, but that is beside the point. The point is that the two giants compete for market share, but both enjoy robust…
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By Greta Massetti, Professor of Population Health Sciences, Georgia State University
Preventable injuries and deaths kill more Americans in the first half of life than any other cause, including cancer. Yet the programs aimed at addressing them have been gutted by CDC layoffs.
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By Ben Belton, Professor of International Development, Michigan State University
Leo Baldiga, Ph.D. Student in Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University
Just a few years ago, agricultural drones were expensive, small and difficult to use, limiting their appeal to farmers. No longer.
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