People face multiple existential crises such as climate change and conflicts that could potentially escalate into nuclear war.

Andrea Barnett, POLIS Wildfire Resilience Project Manager, University of Victoria Oliver Brandes, Co-Director; Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Policy of the POLIS Project; ...

Sarah Wade, Associate Professor in Museum Studies, School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia The artworks in Sea Inside offer ways of engaging with the existential threats facing ...

As of July 25 2025, people in the UK accessing web services with pornographic content will have to prove they are over 18 years of age. This development has been in the works for a while. It was ...

The recent Cranston Inquiry has shed light on the rescue operation that failed to prevent the deaths of at least 30 people in the Channel.

Maritime folklore has long been shuffled to the margins of nautical history, presented as the quaint, colourful oddities of a former age. Yet this body of beliefs, practices and stories can offer ...

The House of Lords this week approved government legislation that will allow foreign states to hold up to a 15% stake in British newspaper publishers. This vote clears the way for the American ...

The Patented Medicine Prices Review Board’s mandate is to make sure that drug prices are not excessive. However, new guidelines that change criteria for assessing prices may lead to higher prices.

Technology platforms operating in the UK now have a legal duty to protect young people from some of the more dangerous forms of online content. This includes pornography, content that encourages, ...

While Columbia University can afford to pay the government $200 million in order to unfreeze federal grants and contracts it was awarded, many other universities and colleges could not.

A recent Microsoft report headlined “Breaking down the infinite workday” found that 40% of Microsoft 365 users online at this hour are already scanning their emails – and that an average worker will ...

Satellite technology that can track ships even when they ‘go dark’ finds that those protected areas that fully ban industrial fishing are succeeding, even if others aren’t.