Queensland’s January 2019 floods were so large their scale could only be accurately captured from space. EPA/NASA Worldview Gabriel Crowley, James…
Plant extinctions have skyrocketed, driven in large part by land clearing and climate change. Graphic Node/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Jaco Le…
The white supremacist terrorist told us in his manifesto that he committed this act of terrorism because of a…
Ruth McKie, De Montfort University While much of the world now recognises the needfor immediate action, there are still those…
The exploitation of fossil fuels emits CO₂, the main cause of global warming. Zbynek Burival/Unsplash, CC BY Guillaume Paris,…
The message: a trademark umbrella during the original 2014 protests. Shutterstock Michael Joseph Richardson, Newcastle University The Cathay Pacific Airways…
SCHIFF: “Trump and his campaign welcomed and encouraged Russian interference?” MUELLER: “Yes.” SCHIFF: “And then Trump and his campaign lied…
Democratic Representatives Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib speak about Donald Trump’s Twitter attacks against them in…
In February, thousands of women marched in Mexico City to demand that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador do more to…
The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to climate change often have social and political…
The bodies of Salvadoran migrant Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter lie on the bank of the Rio Grande…
US Air Force fighters during the 1991 Gulf War. Everett Historical/Shutterstock Benjamin Neimark, Lancaster University; Oliver Belcher, Durham University, and…
Contact with nature reduces stress and aggression, one reason scholars say urban green space may reduce violence. Shutterstock Lincoln Larson,…
Unemployment and a loss of health insurance are two problems not necessarily captured in official poverty measures. tuaindeed/Shutterstock.com Sophie Mitra,…
Israel has a powerful air force — and it’s not afraid to strike neighbors it perceives as a national security threat.…
The components of an iPhone add up to a different cost than the phone itself. Poravute Siriphiroon/Shutterstock.com Jason Dedrick, Syracuse…
Ruben Andersson, University of Oxford At the US-Mexico border, President Donald Trump’s migration “emergency” has led to children being locked…
Tourism, that quintessentially elitist pursuit, is now responsible for almost 8 percent of global CO₂ emissions.Blake Barlow/Unsplash, CC BY…
Protesters opposed to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion during a rally in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 9 June. Photograph: Darryl…
Only 10 minutes separated the world from another devastating war in the Middle East. Donald Trump says he suddenly realized…