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Climate change is usually discussed as an environmental or economic problem. For some countries, however, it represents a far more fundamental challenge: a threat to their continued existence as states. Rising sea levels, coastal erosion and environmental degradation are already...

At a plantation in coastal Ecuador, a crate of bananas is set aside, not because it is spoiled, but because it is slightly curved in the wrong way, too small, or marked by minor blemishes. Thousands of kilometers away, in...

In Uganda, it is now forty years since President Yoweri Museveni captured power, and he has ruled ever since. When his National Resistance Army (NRA) fought its way into power in January 1986, unease swept through Namokora — a remote...

“Buy one, get one free” usually sounds like a good deal. But in one small theatre in London, the offer comes with a twist: the free item is a burial shroud. The audience laughs, then hesitates, then laughs again.This uneasy...

Scholars often observed how less-dominant languages are being spoken less and less. As a result, the dominant varieties might take over, leading the world toward less multilingual societies and cultural losses. Are non-Mandarin Chinese varieties in Malaysia an analogous trend...

The Arctic region has increasingly gained prominence not only as an area of environmental and strategic significance but as one of the most instructive arenas for examining the limits and possibilities of inclusive international governance. At the center of this...

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This piece is my reflection on my visit to the magical forest in the Kendeng Mountains, home to the Baduy people, an indigenous community in Indonesia. Here, life unfolds in harmony with nature guided by a set of customary rules...

By October 2025, according to OCHA, only 23% of the global humanitarian funding required for the previous year had been met. Behind this percentage lies a stark reality: millions of people affected by conflict, displacement, and climate-related disasters received less...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has seen huge technological advancements across many different fields. In recent years, generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Grok, Claude and Google Gemini have risen in popularity, and seen significant...