Nobel peace prize 2023: award for Iranian women’s rights protester highlights fight against declining democracy around the world: One hundred days after Iranians first protested the killing of 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini for wearing her hijab incorrectly, Narges Mohammadi sat down in her prison cell to write a letter to the country’s women. She …
Measles: how declining vaccination levels in London are threatening herd immunity: fotohay/Shutterstock The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned of an increased risk of measles outbreaks, particularly in London. Although the probability of a large epidemic is still considered to be low elsewhere in the UK, the UKHSA’s projections suggest the capital could see …
Boris Johnson’s bad behaviour: how declining trust in the prime minister affects trust in British democracy: A seemingly endless cycle of scandals has come to define Boris Johnson’s time as prime minister. This has peaked in recent months with the revelations about lockdown parties in Downing Street and Johnson being fined by police for his …
Traditional fire use is declining globally – here’s why that’s a problem: A controlled burn designed to prevent wildfires in Guyana. Kayla de Freitas, Author provided Greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb, and so you might expect more of Earth’s surface to be engulfed by fires each year. But satellite data shows that the reverse …
Kenya’s wildlife populations are declining markedly as livestock numbers grow: The number of camels in Kenya has risen, as have other livestock populations. Shutterstock Over the past four decades populations of almost all the common wildlife species in Kenya have fallen to one third or less of their previous levels. Concurrently, livestock numbers, most notably …