Category: Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sara Mehryar, Research Fellow in climate change adaptation and resilience, London School of Economics and Political Science Water fountains offer welcome relief to Londoners. Nicolas Economou/Shutterstock Extreme heat in the UK is no longer a distant or seasonal issue. It’s a growing national risk. When the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephan Blum, Research associate, Institute for Prehistory and Early History and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen Sometimes the seeds of collapse are sown in the very soil of prosperity. Beneath the ancient city of Troy’s shining walls, the earth quietly cracked under the weight of its…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mete Sefa Uysal, Lecturer in Social & Political Psychology, University of Exeter Christopher Penler/Shutterstock In 2013, a wave of protests began in Turkey in opposition to the planned demolition of Gezi Park in Istanbul. The protests soon evolved into mass anti-government demonstrations, and a landmark moment…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Thought, The Open University ‘Ridiculous costs’: Andy Pearce on his farm in the Fens of eastern England. Photograph by Rebecca Pearce, CC BY-NC-ND The Pearces have been farming the Fens of eastern England for generations – a region…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicky Hudson, Professor of Medical Sociology, De Montfort University Svitlana Hulko/Shutterstock A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had been frozen for more than 30 years — setting a new world record. The embryo…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rüdiger Riesch, Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, Royal Holloway University of London Antarctic leopard seals make calls that share structures with nursery rhymes. Yaroslav Nikitin/Shutterstock Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin O’Malley, Clinical Tutor, School of Medicine, University of Limerick New Africa/Shutterstock The UK has just introduced the world’s first national programme offering a vaccine to help protect against gonorrhoea. This coincides with increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including antibiotic-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lauren Anne Constance, PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University Known as hibakusha in Japan, the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only people in the world with firsthand experience of the horrors of nuclear warfare. Now, 80 years…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Miriam Marra, Associate Professor of Finance and co-Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at Henley Business School, University of Reading RYO Alexandre/Shutterstock With the UK government facing a multibillion pound gap between revenue and spending, calls for a wealth tax are becoming louder. More than 30…