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AI data centres are testing the limits of power and water systems
Faster computing is intensifying pressure on electricity grids, cooling water and environmental accountability
Editorial Team SDG9
Jul 316 min read
Satellite alerts expose deforestation but enforcement determines their impact
AI can detect forest loss rapidly, but data access, local verification and state action decide whether trees are protected
Editorial Team SDG15
Jul 306 min read
When climate risk makes insurance unaffordable
Repeated disasters are pushing insurance, mortgages and public budgets into a growing protection gap
Editorial Team SDG13
Jul 296 min read
The Advocates for Human Rights links legal aid to systemic reform
How documentation, pro bono representation and international advocacy turn individual cases into wider human rights action
Editorial Team SDG16
Jul 286 min read
Architecture of inequality, the built environment shapes life chances
Housing, transport, green space and public services are not neutral infrastructure. They distribute health, wealth and opportunity.
Editorial Team SDG11
Jul 277 min read
ARTICLE 19 turns free expression principles into practical protection
How a global rights organisation uses law, policy and local partnerships to defend speech and the public’s right to know
Editorial Team SDG16
Jul 255 min read
The world's largest forest restoration experiment
China's Three-North Shelter Forest Program shows both the promise and the limits of restoring degraded landscapes
Editorial Team SDG15
Jul 248 min read
Women defending land and water are reshaping environmental leadership
Women environmental defenders protect shared resources while confronting violence, exclusion and legal pressure
Editorial Team SDG5
Jul 235 min read
What the evidence says about global warming — part three
What remains uncertain, what science says with confidence, and why evidence should guide the conversation more than ideology
Editorial Team SDG13
Jul 226 min read
What the evidence says about global warming — part two
How glaciers, polar ice and atmospheric chemistry reveal a coherent picture of climate change and help distinguish human influence from natural variability
Editorial Team SDG13
Jul 216 min read
What the evidence says about global warming — part one
How measurements from land, oceans and space transformed global warming from a scientific hypothesis into one of the best-documented changes in the modern Earth system
Editorial Team SDG13
Jul 207 min read
From landfill to the power grid: the new generation of plants aiming to turn waste into energy without releasing its carbon
Europe is supporting pioneering projects that combine waste-to-energy with carbon capture to reduce the climate impact of residual waste
Editorial Team SDG9
Jul 194 min read
The politics of clean air: health, power and environmental justice
Air pollution exposes how transport, energy and urban policy determine who breathes safely and who carries the greatest health burden
Editorial Team SDG3
Jul 186 min read
The science and politics of vaccine hesitancy
Declining vaccination rates in some countries are creating new public health risks, driven by distrust, misinformation and political polarisation
Editorial Team SDG3
Jul 176 min read
Libraries as democratic infrastructure for education and public life
Libraries protect equal access to knowledge, digital services and lifelong learning amid widening social and information divides
Editorial Team SDG4
Jul 167 min read
Microbiome, the invisible world inside us shapes health, disease and medicine
Science is redefining the human body as a complex ecosystem in which trillions of microorganisms influence immunity, metabolism and brain function
Editorial Team SDG3
Jul 156 min read
Grassroots partnerships at the heart of global women's rights
MADRE supports women-led organisations through long-term partnerships that connect human rights, peacebuilding and climate justice
Editorial Team SDG5
Jul 145 min read
Digital Defenders Partnership strengthens digital security for civil society under threat
The programme funds emergency responses and long-term protection for activists, journalists and human rights organisations
Editorial Team SDG16
Jul 126 min read
When tourism becomes a local burden
Tourism can support cities, but unmanaged growth can displace residents, strain resources and turn communities into visitor economies
Editorial Team SDG11
Jul 127 min read
The forgotten right to sanitation
Safe toilets and wastewater systems protect health, education, equality and dignity, yet remain neglected in public policy
Editorial Team SDG6
Jul 107 min read
Locked out of finance, trapped in poverty
Banking exclusion leaves low-income workers, migrants and rural communities paying more and facing greater risks
Editorial Team SDG1
Jul 107 min read
ARTICLE 19 defends freedom of expression in an increasingly restrictive information environment
The organisation combines legal expertise, advocacy and training to protect the rights to speak, know and participate
Editorial Team SDG16
Jul 96 min read
Library For All and the case for culturally relevant children's books
Library For All works to expand early literacy by creating books that reflect the languages and lives of underserved children
Editorial Team SDG4
Jul 87 min read
The ethics of climate adaptation and the question of who is protected first
As climate risks intensify, adaptation choices are becoming tests of fairness, power and public responsibility
Editorial Team SDG13
Jul 75 min read
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