The Philippines. Pakistan. New Orleans. Sri Lanka. All have suffered catastrophic disasters in recent times. And the emergence of “climate refugees” – populations displaced by extreme weather events…
Thousands of lives have been saved thanks to an Indian state’s effective disaster-relief planning.
Hurricanes, heatwaves and floods can be good moments to begin tough conversations about climate change.
Our climate is changing. But many of the devastating repercussions are little understood.
The Department for Education has been scrambling to end the crisis over allegations of extremism at Muslim schools in Birmingham (the so-called Trojan Horse affair). Among all the ideas floated, one, the…
When Hurricane Sandy struck New York in 2012, it was a brutal wake up call for the Big Apple. That call should have also been heard by the citizens of every other coastal city and those responsible for…
Mac Rebennack took the stage name Dr John and a persona based on a real-life voodoo prince.
For almost sixty years Hurricane Hazel has stood as the most extreme storm on recorded in City of Toronto but this week, on July 8th, a new record was set. A series of storms hit the city late in the afternoon…
Researchers in the US have overcome a key barrier to making nuclear fusion reactors a reality. In results published in Nature, scientists have shown that they can now produce more energy from fusion reactions…
Many small island developing states remain just one storm away from fiscal collapse and unsustainable debt.
