According to the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), hate crimes in the US have increased for the third consecutive year. In addition to reporting the rise in…
Conflict
Just outside the bazaar, at the foot of the citadel in Erbil, a group of older men are sitting out under the moon, talking over their country’s situation between slurps…
Drawing on data from two decades of research in the United States and Mexico, new research published in the journal Nature suggests that increases in temperature correlate positively to increases…
Human conflict over the planet’s finite resources has been an unfortunate constant throughout history. Another example of this conflict has emerged after French and British boats clashed off the coast of…
According to figures from the NGO Global Witness, 66 environmental defenders have been killed so far in 2018. Environmental defenders are people who take peaceful action, either voluntarily or professionally,…
The Supreme Court of Cambodia has upheld the guilty verdict of a lower-court against three Cambodian environmental activists over their involvement in a 2015 anti-sand dredging campaign in Koh-Kong province….
The President of the French Federation of Butchers, Jean-François Guihard, has written to the French interior ministry asking for government protection from animal rights activists. The request comes after a number…
Scientists have discovered a way to grow diamonds in a laboratory setting in just eight weeks – a process that takes billions of years naturally. These diamonds are almost indistinguishable…
For two weeks in October 2016, the Swedish retailer built a concrete 25 square-metre replica of a real Syrian family’s home – almost totally bare except for some rugs and meager furnishings – inside…
People walking along the Thames by Tower Bridge one day in September 2016 might have been surprised to see a fair-sized battleship making its way up river, and ahead of…
A group of six Syrian refugees in Berlin has built a mobile and web application called Bureaucrazy to help refugees get over the significant hurdle of paperwork. They realised that…
A team of designers has created a virtual reality film where participants can ‘experience’ the war in Syria. It includes a realistic rocket attack and shows the growth of a…
