Trees can make farms more sustainable – here’s how to help farmers plant more

Incentives have so far benefited large landowners and created lifeless plantations.

Dhanapal Govindarajulu, Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester • conversation
Feb. 7, 2024 ~7 min

Why monkeys attack people - a primate expert explains

Tourists can do a number of things to avoid dangerous encounters with monkeys.

Tracie McKinney, Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University of South Wales • conversation
Jan. 31, 2024 ~6 min


The psychology of climate negotiations: How to move countries from national self-interest to global collective action

Negotiating global progress on climate change involves walking a fine line, as a former UN official explains.

Asif Husain-Naviatti, Visiting Fellow in International Climate Governance, Columbia University • conversation
Nov. 27, 2023 ~9 min

How climate negotiators turn national self-interest into global collective action

Negotiating global progress on climate change involves walking a fine line, as a former UN official explains.

Asif Husain-Naviatti, Visiting Fellow in International Climate Governance, Columbia University • conversation
Nov. 27, 2023 ~9 min

The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet

Did the Green Revolution, which brought high-tech agriculture to developing nations in the 1960s, prevent famine? Recent research takes a much more skeptical view.

Glenn Davis Stone, Research Professor of Environmental Science, Sweet Briar College • conversation
Oct. 4, 2023 ~10 min

India has landed on the Moon: here's what the political and economic gains are

India’s space mission is driving economic changes and high-tech job opportunities.

Christopher Newman, Professor of Space Law and Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle • conversation
Aug. 30, 2023 ~6 min

India's Chandrayaan-3 landed on the south pole of the Moon − a space policy expert explains what this means for India and the global race to the Moon

India became the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon, a notoriously difficult achievement that also marks them as the fourth country to land on the Moon.

Mariel Borowitz, Associate Professor of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology • conversation
Aug. 24, 2023 ~7 min

Chandrayaan-3: India hopes to land a rover on the Moon for the first time

The Indian spacecraft could lay the ground for future missions with astronauts, and even for lunar bases.

Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University • conversation
Aug. 21, 2023 ~7 min


New data reveal US space economy's output is shrinking – an economist explains in 3 charts

With commercial space tourism on the rise and NASA planning to return to the Moon, you might think the US space economy is booming – but the data paints a more complex picture.

Jay L. Zagorsky, Clinical Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University • conversation
Aug. 16, 2023 ~8 min

How ChatGPT might be able to help the world's poorest and the organisations that work with them

AI chatbots can be educational tools but still have many drawbacks.

Maximilian Bruder, PhD Research Fellow, Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), United Nations University • conversation
Aug. 11, 2023 ~7 min

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