By Benoit Barbeau, Associate professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The Andean virus is not highly transmissible between humans. But it is deadly, and the incubation period can be long, so we must remain vigilant, says the virologist.
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By Nye Davies, Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University
After all the predictions, projections and polling permutations, Welsh Labour’s defeat has been confirmed.
In 1985, Welsh historian Gwyn Alf Williams described Labour majorities standing “like Aneurin Bevan’s memorial stones”. Forty years on, the stones have finally been eroded. On the worst day for the party in its history in Wales, even its leader, Eluned Morgan, lost her seat.
After more than a century as Wales’ dominant political force, the figures and symbols that once anchored Welsh…
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A police van with one of the Australian women allegedly linked to the Islamic State at the Mascot Police Station in Sydney on May 7, 2026. © 2026 Izhar Khan/Getty Images (Sydney) – Australian authorities should ensure that criminal proceedings against three Australian women who were charged on May 7 and 8, 2026, with serious alleged crimes linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) fully respect due process rights, Human Rights Watch said today. The accused are among thirteen Australians—four women and nine children—who returned to Australia after more than seven years of…
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By Aditya Narayanan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton; UNSW Sydney
Alberto Naveira Garabato, Professor, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
Alessandro Silvano, NERC Independent Research Fellow in Oceanography, University of Southampton
For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen seawater that expands around the continent each winter – appeared remarkably resilient. It was often described as the “heartbeat of the planet”.
Unlike the Arctic, where sea ice declined rapidly as the planet warmed, Antarctic sea ice showed little overall loss. It even expanded between 2007 and 2015. But that resilience has now…
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By Guest Contributor
...[T]he promise of a digital future may come at the same heavy cost to human rights and environmental justice as the floral exports that preceded it.
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By Amnesty International
Responding to news that five law enforcement officers in Georgia have been arrested and charged over attacks in 2024 on three people attending anti-government protests, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Director, said: “Accountability for the widespread abusive use of force by police against peaceful protesters, journalists and government critics during […] The post Georgia: Justice and accountability require more that criminal charges against five police officers for assaulting protesters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Ebru Işıklı, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociology, University College Dublin
When earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria in February 2023, more than 50,000 people were killed and thousands more were injured.
One month after the disaster, a bank employee named Efe Demir died by suicide in İstanbul. Before his death, he had sent an email to colleagues questioning the actions and motivations of his employer,…
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By Roja Hadianamrei, Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Science, University of Portsmouth
The first ever avian influenza vaccine recently started trials in the UK. This marks a milestone in the prevention of bird flu infections in humans.
The vaccine targets the H5N1 flu strain, which causes severe infections in bird populations worldwide. However, this strain of bird flu virus is also able to spread to humans in rare cases through direct contact with infected birds or poultry…
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
I wouldn’t say that I’m afraid of heights. I can stand on a cliff path or look out from a tall building without the rush of panic people often associate with vertigo. What I really dislike is something much harder to explain: the peculiar feeling in my feet.
It’s a sensation that’s difficult to describe. It isn’t numbness, it isn’t tingling either. The closest I can come is a strange awareness in the soles of my feet – a kind of buzzing.
For a long time I assumed this was just an odd personal quirk. But many people report something similar when standing near a drop. Around…
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By Santiago Zuluaga Castañeda, JdlC Researcher, Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC)
Arjun Amar, Associate Professor, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town
Megan Murgatroyd, Biologist, University of Cape Town
Birds of prey and vultures (raptors) play a vital role in ecosystems, both as top predators and key scavengers. However, compared to many other bird species, raptor populations are declining faster. This is because they need large areas to live in, have low population densities, and reproduce slowly. For these reasons they are vulnerable to human impacts like farming with pesticides, electrocution, collision with wind turbines, or poaching.
In many cases, by the time scientists and conservationists…
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