As Global Society News approaches its fourth anniversary, the editorial team reflects on the people, communities and organisations driving change

A preventable disease is spreading where water systems, health services and public investment have failed

A water charity working in Kenya, Uganda and Sierra Leone highlights the gap between access and reliability

Data tools can help cities target heat risks, but protection still depends on housing, health systems and local trust.

A Spanish foundation has helped move human-animal bonds from sentiment into health, care and education practice

In conflict zones, women-led cultural initiatives are helping communities preserve trust, memory and public life.

How Interpeace tries to move community knowledge into national and international peace policy

The US non-profit uses storytelling, science and local dialogue to push plastic pollution from awareness into policy

Research on psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine is expanding, but safety, regulation and clinical evidence remain decisive.

HIFA argues that remote care cannot work fairly when patients, clinicians and policymakers lack trusted health information

In Cameroon, BIOCOM-MDJ aims to involve nearby villages in protecting wildlife, forests and sustainable local livelihoods

Published alongside our earlier report on the International Rescue Committee, this opinion column reflects on why conflict, poverty, climate stress and aid cuts must now be understood as one connected global failure

A fast-growing science news platform says speed and independence can coexist, but the wider information climate makes that claim harder to test

In conflict settings, the IRC’s joined-up model of health, protection, education and emergency aid matters as needs rise

The UN agency’s food crisis assessments have become an essential warning system as acute food insecurity deepens

Conflict harms children long after the shelling stops, through education loss, trauma, displacement and collapsed public services

Rising repayments to creditors linked to London and other European financial centres are squeezing health, schools and climate action

Across Asia, governments, philanthropy and industry are reshaping research around competitiveness, influence and strategic technologies

Advanced materials, cell engineering and biological production are pushing the bioeconomy from research promise to factory-floor change

New malaria vaccines offer real promise, but delivery, trust and funding will decide whether that promise reaches children

Drought, hunger, inflation, aid cuts and geopolitical shocks are colliding across the world’s most vulnerable states

War, fuel prices and fertiliser costs still outweigh national plans across Africa, despite reforms and stronger policy ambitions

Sensors, AI tools and remote decisions are widening access, but they may also redraw inequality, trust and clinical accountability

Methane warms fast, leaks can often be fixed cheaply, and new monitoring is making inaction harder to hide