Global Geopolitics Series

Decades of underfunding, blockade have weakened Gaza's health system – the siege has pushed it into abject crisis

Oct 17, 2023 15:33 pm UTC| Life

For patients in Gazas besieged north, the order to evacuate from hospital beds and head south amounts to a death sentence. That was the stark assessment of the World Health Organization on Oct. 14, 2023. By then, four...

Where did the cars go? How heavier, costlier SUVs and utes took over Australia's roads

Oct 17, 2023 15:31 pm UTC| Life

If were upset about the price of petrol, why do we drive the vehicles we do? SUVs (so-called sport utility vehicles) use more fuel per kilometre than standard cars according to the International Energy Agency, up to...

지속 가능한 할로윈을 위한 5가지 팁

Oct 17, 2023 14:59 pm UTC| Life

할로윈은 연중 가장 으스스 스로운 시간입니다. 그러나 당신이 친구와 가족을 놀래키려고 준비할 때, 이 축제가 감추고 있는 환경적 영향에 대해 많이 생각하지 않을 수 있습니다. 영국만 하더라도 매년 할로윈에 800만 개 이상의...

Parents make mistakes. So what does 'good enough parenting' look like?

Oct 17, 2023 06:55 am UTC| Life

There is a huge amount of pressure on parents today from feeding babies the best organic purees to making sure older children get all the developmental opportunities they could possibly need, while of course documenting...

Memory in action: what the UK's official COVID commemoration should look like

Oct 17, 2023 06:54 am UTC| Life

Whether an actual bereavement or a loss of experience, everyone has lost something to COVID. From early on in the pandemic, grassroots memorials sought to acknowledge this collective experience, including the national...

Five tips for a sustainable Halloween

Oct 17, 2023 06:54 am UTC| Life

Halloween is the spookiest time of the year. However, as you prepare to send shivers down the spines of your friends and family, you may not have given much thought to the environmental footprint that this holiday...

The roots of the North American opioid crisis, and 3 key strategies for stopping it

Oct 17, 2023 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The Netflix series Painkiller recently depicted how the over-prescribing of the medicine OxyContin wreaked havoc on American society. Today the grim reality is that opioid-related deaths in North America reached a...