Violent conflicts are the primary driver of hunger, exacerbated by climate change and the aftermath of the pandemic.Total global military expenditure reached $2443 billion in 2023, an increase of 6.8 percent in real terms from 2022. This was the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009. The 10 largest spenders in 2023—led…
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Motvind Norge cannot accept the ongoing human rights violation at Fosen and is therefore reporting the actors involved to Økokrim.Committed…
David Sear, University of SouthamptonBritain’s rivers are under the spotlight because of an untreated sewage crisis and the pendulum of…
Get used to seeing this headline. On Monday, July 3. the world passed 17,01 degrees global average temperature, surpassing the…
The Supreme Court’s recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been…
Deforestation of the Amazon, near Santarém, Brazil. Photograph: Brazil Photos/LightRocket/Getty ImagesThe tens of billions of chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals we raise,…
The Class sketch is a “genuinely timeless sketch, ingeniously satirising the British class system” first broadcast in an episode of The Frost Report on 7 April…
A tank stuck in the circus gate in Rostov-on-Don – the perfect metaphor for today’s Russia. (Stringer / Reuters)This was the…
REUTERS Digital News ReportSébastien Charlton, Université Laval and Colette Brin, Université LavalCanadians have less appetite for news and are less…
Local authorities are eager to get about 300 jobs from the new IKEA facility. This should not outweigh Norwegian soil…
Norway’s nuclear test-ban monitor NORSAR says seismic signals indicate that there was an explosion at the Nova Kakhovka Dam at…
Miguel de Felipe Toro, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC); Carmen Díaz-Paniagua, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), and David Aragonés Borrego,…
Brilliantly clairvoyant editorial illustration by Christian Bloom in Norwegian newspaper VG December 3. 2016.A rearview from the first article on Trump on…
Nicholas Leach, University of OxfordIn the summer of 2021, Canada’s all-time temperature record was smashed by almost 5℃. Its new…
The reason Russia launched 54 Iranian kamikaze drones at Kyiv last night is that today is Kyiv Day, when Ukrainians…
I just spoke to my new nemesis CEO of @Equinor and its majority shareholder, the Norwegian government, at their AGM.These…
Here is John Oliver on Last Week Tonight explaining what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, and how…
Finland’s election: what happened to Sanna Marin and what to expect nextDanny Dorling, University of OxfordFinland has been the happiest country…
Wildfires are becoming a greater risk in many countries as the landscape driesMichael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images Stacy Morford,…
Noël Brunetière, Université de PoitiersWith the rise in gas prices showing no signs of abating, it seems appropriate to ask…
Domenico Campa, International University of Monaco et Mara Cameran, Bocconi UniversityIn early March, France’s first minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced that…
Renaud Foucart, Lancaster UniversityAround 30 years ago, many developed countries started a process of absolute decoupling of their emissions of…