The EU, the UK and Argentina were the only large emitters to present tougher climate targets by the UN’s 2020 deadline, with China and the US lagging By Chloé Farand Most…
During the 1994 Genocide Against The Tutsi In Rwanda, Liberee Kayumba avoided starvation thanks to emergency rations from the World Food Programme (WFP). Today, she is helping to ensure that Burundian…
Up to 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats descend on Zambia’s Kasanka national park every year, dispersing millions of seeds as they go David Mubiana will always remember the day he…
On Nov. 4, the day after the presidential election, the United States officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change. As vote counting tilted toward a Joe Biden victory,…
Officials from Viktor Orbán’s rightwing party stoke outrage over two-week installation It will be only one metre high, and will be on display for just two weeks. Nevertheless, a planned…
Roger Lumbala suspected of various acts during 1998-2002 war in Democratic Republic of Congo French anti-terror prosecutors have announced the arrest of the former head of a rebel group in…
Last Saturday saw the departure of one of the last remaining British giants of the post-war world. Sir Brian Urquhart — one of perhaps the three most influential people in…
Boris Johnson opted out of the popular Erasmus university exchange program. That’s a real shame. Granted, there are bigger problems to be tackled right now than a lost semester abroad. Many…
The transition currently underway from a fossil-fuel energy model to one based on renewables is surely the most important in our collective history. Some time ago, Nature published a brilliant…
Squatters reportedly belonging to one family claim site of 5,000 year-old ruins was given to them in the 1970s Illegal squatters have invaded the ruins of the oldest city in…