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Prototypes for Humanity showcases solutions-based projects from universities around the world – in Dubai

Flash cars, flashier skyscrapers, strict public behaviour laws and soaring temperatures. Reality television shows and news reports on expat extravagances and holidays gone wrong ensure that Dubai has many images. Being a hub for international research probably isn’t one that springs to most people’s minds.

The Conversation · Nov 26, 2024

Cop29: five critical issues still left hanging after an underwhelming UN climate summit in Azerbaijan

Billed as the “finance Cop”, the 29th UN climate change summit (otherwise known as Cop29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, was expected to provide the money to enable the transition away from fossil fuels announced at last year’s Cop28.

The Conversation · Nov 25, 2024

Character references tell a court you’re a good person. Why are convicted rapists allowed to use them?

In a recent Newcastle trial, a jury found three men guilty on multiple charges of sexually assaulting three teenage girls over two nights.

The Conversation · Nov 25, 2024

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Cop29: Indigenous communities still being sold short as the world decides how to regulate carbon markets

As the annual UN climate conference, Cop29, draws to a close, negotiators, civil society observers and activists are staying up late, poring over draft texts that will determine how the international community addresses climate change for years to come. Central among their concerns this year: the turbulent world of carbon…

The Conversation · Nov 22, 2024

Water companies now have to release live sewage spill data – here’s why more transparency is the key to cleaner rivers

For the first time, anyone in England can now access real-time information of where combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are discharging untreated wastewater into our waterways. This week, all water companies published details of how anyone can access the status of thousands of “event duration monitors”, devices that are placed on…

The Conversation · Nov 22, 2024

Graduate students explore America’s polarized landscape via train in this course

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

The Conversation · Nov 22, 2024

Time is running out for a treaty to end plastic pollution – here’s why it matters

On March 2 2022, delegates to the UN environment assembly adopted an ambitious resolution to develop the text of a new treaty by the end of 2024 to end plastic pollution. With 24 days of formal negotiation between almost 200 countries completed, spread over meetings in Peru, France, Kenya and…

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2024

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Bestselling comic, World Without End, rips the fossil fuel economy apart – and controversially embraces nuclear power

A skydiver stares up at his parachute. It’s on fire. Hurriedly, the skydiver pulls out his spare … but hesitates. There is something spooky about the spare parachute, with its lime-green glow. The vibes are off. Playing it safe, the skydiver casts his spare parachute into the clouds. Then he…

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2024

Fifty years after the discovery of Lucy, it’s time to ‘decolonise paleoanthropology’ says leading Ethiopian fossil expert – podcast

On November 24 1974, renowned American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson spotted “a piece of elbow with humanlike anatomy” poking out of a rocky hillside in northern Ethiopia. It was the first fossil of a partial skeleton belonging to “Lucy”, an ancient female hominin who took the story of human evolution back…

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2024

The Conversation subsidiary Universal Impact launches newsletter for researchers – and helps evidence reach new audiences

There are so many opportunities out there for researchers – sometimes the challenge is simply knowing how to find them.

The Conversation · Nov 21, 2024

Cop29 so far: the good and bad news

Gradually, then suddenly is how Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt. The climate crisis could be on a similar trajectory.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

Cop29: How fast is Earth warming?

In September 1933, American meteorologist Joseph Kincer asked a simple question: is the climate changing? So began the effort to understand the scope of humanity’s interference with the climate.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

Is Cop29 a waste of time? Not if rich countries commit to paying for climate damage in developing world

“An ambitious new climate finance goal” should be the priority of every nation at the latest round of international climate negotiations in Baku, Azerbaijan. That’s according to Simon Stiell, who heads the United Nations process for negotiating an agreement to limit global heating.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

Why big oil and gas firms might want the Paris agreement to survive

ExxonMobil chief executive Darren Woods has urged president-elect Donald Trump to not take the US out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “We need a global system for managing emissions”, he said in an interview at the annual UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The Conversation · Nov 20, 2024

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The Conversation · Nov 19, 2024

Farm inheritance tax: farmers cannot go green if they are in the red

In villages across the country, irate farmers have accused the government of trying to end the tradition of the family farm by scrapping agricultural property relief, a measure which previously sheltered farms from having to pay inheritance tax on farmland.

The Conversation · Nov 19, 2024

Eating less sugar would be great for the planet as well as our health

Sugar addiction is on the rise. Globally, sugar intake has quadrupled over the last 60 years, and it now makes up around 8% of all our calories.

The Conversation · Nov 19, 2024

US politics has long shaped global climate action and science – how much will Trump’s opposition matter?

US president-elect Donald Trump has indicated that he will again withdraw his country from the Paris agreement and perhaps the UN climate process altogether. The uncertainty this has created was palpable in the negotiation rooms and hallways of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I wrote this.

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2024

The Moana effect: how small island developing states are bringing their struggle against climate change to the world

Walking through the delegation pavilion at the UN climate summit, Cop29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Moana blue Pacific pavilion grabbed my attention more than any other.

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The Conversation · Nov 18, 2024

Why do I feel better when I wake myself up instead of relying on an alarm? A neurologist explains the science of a restful night’s sleep

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected].

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2024

The Serviceberry: this Indigenous understanding of nature can help us rethink economics

In the tension between ecology and economics lies an uncomfortable truth: while both words share a root in “eco” (from the Greek oikos, meaning home), our modern economies often seem to overlook the home we all share – the natural world.

The Conversation · Nov 18, 2024

The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other

Climate change and biodiversity policies have largely evolved in isolation, even though the two crises are deeply intertwined. They have their own UN summits, with the same name and numbering system: the UN biodiversity summit Cop16 just concluded in Colombia, while the climate summit Cop29 is happening right now in…

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2024

Cop29 bingo: a beginner’s guide to climate acronyms

This is the one time of year where the eyes of the world are all on climate change. When it makes the news every single night, and everyone hopes that, miraculously, almost 200 countries will somehow put aside insurmountable differences to come together and solve this crisis in a tidy…

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2024

Shell’s legal victory is disappointing – but this is not the end for corporate climate litigation

In the first ruling of its kind, the Dutch Hague District Court in 2021 ordered a fossil fuel company, Shell, to slash its emissions. This decision would have required the oil and gas giant to cut its emissions by 45% by 2030 (compared with 2019 levels) across its operations and…

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2024

Five ways that climate change threatens human health

As the UN’s climate summit, Cop29, gets underway in Azerbaijan this week, the effect of climate change on human health is high on the agenda. And rightly so, amid some alarming emerging statistics. By the end of this century, climate change could be the cause of more than 3 million…

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2024

Australian police are trialling AI to analyse body-worn camera footage, despite overseas failures and expert criticism

Police departments around the world are increasingly using body-worn cameras in an attempt to improve public trust and accountability. But this has created huge amounts of data, about 95% of which is never reviewed or even seen.

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