The annual United Nations Conference of the Parties global climate change meetings play a pivotal role in elevating climate conversations. They’re often accompanied by intense media coverage that ...

Maxi Schoeman, Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Pretoria Samuel Oyewole, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria The UK’s ...

Topping out over 3,000 metres above sea level, the Drakensberg and Maluti mountains bordering South Africa and Lesotho are frequently covered in snow in winter. Back in 1975, German and South African ...

Ghana: who can declare an MP’s seat vacant? A legal scholar unpacks the dispute between parliament and the supreme court ...

Intellectual humility means being open to new ideas and other points of view – and for leaders, it can be a delicate balancing act.

The ancient classical texts of Hinduism taught that every age and stage of life need not be lived as a breathless race. They proposed living according to one’s natural capabilities.

Recreational legalization ballot questions in Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota all failed. Two medical measures passed in Nebraska but face legal challenges over the validity of the signatures ...

A thin layer at the ocean surface called the “ocean skin” increases CO₂ uptake by about 7%. That’s equivalent to the CO₂ absorbed by the entire Amazon rainforest each year.

Alex Waddan, Associate Professor in American Politics and American Foreign Policy, University of Leicester There was a little bit of deja vu after this week’s US election when Donald Trump defeated a ...

Charles Max Katz, Director of the Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety, Arizona State University Taylor Cox, Program Coordinator, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Arizona State ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

The latest Independent Social Research Foundation conference heard how refugees have died after becoming trapped at the border between Poland and Belarus ...