By Anastasia Pestova
When people disappear, an entire world disappears with them — the smoke in their tents, the names of their rivers, their languages, and their songs.
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By Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney
Julie Inman Grant has been asked to testify to Congress. It’s a sign of an increasing US preoccupation with online censorship.
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By James Dyke, Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter
Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Ten years ago the world’s leaders placed a historic bet. The 2015 Paris agreement aimed to put humanity on a path to avert dangerous climate change. A decade on, with the latest climate conference ending in Belém, Brazil, without decisive action, we can definitively say humanity has lost this bet.
Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot”…
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By Leocadia Bongben
If such development continues unchecked, Cameroon is at risk of further damaging its protected marine ecosystems and sabotaging its long-term sustainability and conservation goals.
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By Simon Goodman, Associate professor, De Montfort University
Rahul Sambaraju, Lecturer, psychology, University of Edinburgh
Keir Starmer has called on Nigel Farage to address allegations of racism in Reform UK, and antisemitic and xenophobic comments and bullying allegedly made by Farage while he was at school. Farage has denied the accusations.
A few weeks before the allegations about Farage emerged, Reform MP Sarah Pochin was accused of racism after saying that it “drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”. Farage said that while Pochin’s comments…
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By Mong Palatino
"These activities underscore the need to critically interrogate the techno-scientific solutions promoted in global climate fora and to prioritize farmer-led, ecological, and socially just approaches to food and climate resilience."
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By Anda David, Senior researcher, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
Rawane Yasser, Researcher, Agence Française de Développement (AFD)
An increasingly strong case is being made to bring inequality into discussions about climate change. The logic behind this has been set out by leading international institutions such as the International Labour Organisation, the UN Environmental Programme and the Network…
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By Charli Carpenter, Professor of Political Science, UMass Amherst
Geraldine Santoso, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, UMass Amherst
As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic members of Congress issued a video on Nov. 18, 2025, telling the military “You can refuse illegal orders” and “You must refuse illegal orders.”
The lawmakers have all served either in the…
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By Rowena Hill, Professor of Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
While we cannot stop increases in the magnitude or frequency of adverse weather, there is a lot more people can do to reduce the consequences on their way of life.
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By Anna-Louise Milne, Director of Graduate Studies and Research, University of London Institute in Paris
All along Paris’s River Seine, private foundation money has been pouring into older Parisian institutions to make their buildings hospitable to large modern conceptual works.
Crowds flock to the Bourse du Commerce, for example: once a grain and later a labour market, it has now been transformed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando into clean, white spaces. The same has happened at the recently opened Cartier Foundation, previously a hotel and commercial spaces. French…
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