現在の世界情勢に安心感を抱く人はいないはずだ。紛争、気候変動、不平等といった現代の最大の諸問題は、2024年に驚異的にエスカレートし、世界中でまさに沸点に達した。 こうした激化 ...

人工知能（AI）はアフリカにとって変革の可能性を秘めているが、AIは責任を持って活用することが極めて重要である。AIがさまざまな分野にますます取り込まれていく中、その利活用が ...

Widespread heatwaves. Spiking temperatures. Uncontrollable wildfires. Unforeseen floods. Oppressive droughts. These kinds of extreme events are becoming the norm and, according to a growing body of ...

Remote lands are often treasure boxes full of local lore. Along the far-flung peninsulas of the Japanese archipelago, local legend claims that the ama-san, women free divers, were once seafaring ...

The remarkable variety of life’s interdependent phenomena and processes — what we call ‘diversity’ — is being eroded by the modern forces of homogenization. The rich tapestry — woven from a countless ...

Oceans cover more than two thirds of Earth’s surface. They are home to millions of species, provide a key source of protein to people on every continent, and play an enormous role in regulating our ...

The ongoing famine in war-prone Somalia has led to much speculation about the link between violent conflict and food insecurity. Some commentators have also connected this year’s political revolutions ...

Globally today, we are witnessing an “inexorable intensification of violence” in the world’s armed conflicts. The result is that there are currently 59.5 million refugees worldwide. And among that ...

Most people living in Japan can visualise the landscapes of satoyama and satoumi when they hear these terms. Satoyama and satoumi refer to places close to mountains and sea, respectively, shaped by ...

For indigenous peoples, resilience is rooted in traditional knowledge, as their capacity to adapt to environmental change is based first and foremost on in-depth understanding of the land. As climate ...

A whopping two-thirds of human conversation is gossip about others — a rate that holds true, anthropologists say, for radically different cultures around the world. Something like 90 percent of that ...

Recently I’ve been enjoying dirty thoughts. I spend my days in a sterile 8×10 room practicing family medicine and yet my mind is in the soil. This is because I’m discovering just how much this rich, ...