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No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand This screen grab shows emergency crews battling a fire that broke out at a pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, in Brazil, on November 20, 2025. Photo: AFP / AFPTV A New Zealand disability advocate caught up in the fire at the annual COP climate…
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Kids who count on their fingers do better at maths
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: Radio New Zealand If you ask a small child a simple maths question, such as 4+2, they may count on their fingers to work it out. Should we encourage young children to do this? This seemingly simple question is surprisingly complex to answer. Parents can show preschoolers how they can use their…
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The world’s new US$125 billion rainforest trust fund revives a 1990s idea – and shows its limits
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nick Bernards, Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick A US$125 billion rainforest fund is being hailed as a flagship announcement from the 2025 UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The goal is noble: this is essentially a trust fund that will pay countries…
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Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham Ajdin Kamber/Shutterstock The UK government’s latest proposals on asylum rest on an incorrect premise. In announcing them, home secretary Shabana Mahmood argued…
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Are peanut allergies actually declining?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sheena Cruickshank, Professor in Immunology, University of Manchester Changing allergy guidelines may be behind the decline. Roman Rybaleov/ Shutterstock Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the west. And, for many years, their prevalence…
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Successive UK governments keep failing on fraud – and the problem is only getting worse
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Law, Cardiff University In the UK alone, fraud is thought to cost the economy £219 billion per year. tete_escape/Shutterstock Fraud is now the most common offence in the UK accounting for more than 40% of reported crime. In the year to July…
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Fuel made from just air, power and water is taking off – but several things are holding it back
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jon Gluyas, Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University Aircraft are not going to become electric. Ersin Ergin Imagine powering long-haul aircraft and heavy ships with fuels derived from just air, water and renewable electricity. This is moving from science fiction to the verge…
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One small change Rachel Reeves could make to close tax loopholes and raise revenue
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Haomin Wang, Lecturer in Economics, Cardiff University Myvector/Shutterstock Whatever decisions Rachel Reeves makes in her second budget as UK chancellor, it is clear that she needs to find lots of money. Some argue that the best and fairest way of doing this is to raise the…
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Behind the scenes in Belém: The Conversation’s report from Brazil’s UN climate summit
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Anna Turns, Senior Environment Editor, The Conversation This roundup of The Conversation’s climate coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. As the UN climate summit Cop30 progresses in the Brazilian city of Belém, there’s much debate about the specifics of climate…
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Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Brown, Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University Peasants working, begging and enjoying leisure time in The Golf Book (1520-1530). From the British Library archive In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could…