Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maha Rafi Atal, Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow The trade deal between the US and the European Union, squeezed in days before the re-introduction of Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, is reflective of the new…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Kenneth Paranada, Curator of Art and Climate Change, University of East Anglia Water is at the heart of the disruption wrought by climate change. The seas, once seen as vast and stable, are now unpredictable and restless. That tidy, looping diagram of the water cycle…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matthew Blackett, Reader in Physical Geography and Natural Hazards, Coventry University After a massive earthquake off the coast of Kamchatka, a peninsula in the far east of Russia, on July 30 2025, the world watched as the resultant tsunami spread from the epicentre and across the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock.com Your dog tilts its head when you cry, paces when you’re stressed, and somehow appears at your side during your worst…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Harper, Lecturer in International Relations, University of East London China’s already vast infrastructure programme has entered a new phase as building work starts on the Motuo hydropower project. The dam will consist of five cascade hydropower stations arranged from upstream to downstream and, once completed,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julia Beaumont, Researcher in Biological Anthropology, University of Bradford Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved in the teeth of those who lived through some of the most catastrophic periods in English history. In a new study,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Liz Breen, Professor of Health Service Operations, School of Pharmacy & Medical Sciences, University of Bradford Demand for weight loss jabs has surged in the UK. Mohammed_Al_Ali/ Shutterstock Over a fifth of people in the UK have tried to access a weight loss drug in the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ioanna Stamataki, Senior Lecturer in Hydraulics and Water Engineering, University of Greenwich In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when flying from London to my family home in Greece during the summer months. The sky glows an eerie,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham In yet another twist in his unpredictable decision making, US president Donald Trump has dramatically shortened his original 50-day ultimatum to Vladimir Putin to call a ceasefire in Ukraine to a mere ten days. It’s an unmistakable…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin Pimbblet, Professor and Director of the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, AI and Modelling, University of Hull Fabian Montano Hernandez/Shutterstock Vasectomy has long been regarded as a permanent, safe and effective form of contraception. Its benefits are often summarised as minimally invasive and largely…