Last year, when the U.S. administration terminated the first-ever National Nature Assessment, the team behind it refused to let the work disappear. Director Phil Levin and the entire author team — all volunteers — reorganized, built a new secretariat and advisory committee, spent

Now they are bombing the most beautiful city of earth #prayforIsfahan

Zeteo ended up buying the rights to the Gaza doctors film that the BBC refused to air and you can watch it here: zeteo.com/p/watch-now-ga…

This week's column: choose your university wisely Post-1992 providers have been rapidly expanding business, law and computing courses. Yet the returns for students 5 years after graduating from these courses have, to date, been woeful 1/4

Here is Chinua Achebe in Arrow of God on commissions, written from the point of view of colonisers, Clarke and Winterbottom. My takeaway: collecting facts leads to understanding, even to compassion and responsibility.

🇮🇷 5 months ago in Iran 🎶 The Performance of Tar Master Ali Ghamsari in the historic architecture of Shiraz, accompanied by the Hadpan.

America & Israel bombed Golestan Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage site & crown jewel of Iranian history. Built over 450 years ago, it’s older than Israel & the USA combined. Some civilisations destroy. Others create legacies that last centuries.

A shameful absence of any notion of international law, human rights, proportionality or the slightest sense of moral compass

“No quarter” isn’t some wanna be tough guy line - it means something. An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead. That would violate the law of armed conflict. It would be an illegal order. It would also put American service members at

429.32 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 18-Mar-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

El Nino strength is important, but the extraordinary, accelerating, warming of global sea surface temperatures is much more important. See Super El Nino? – mailchi.mp/caa/super-el-n… Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/super-el-nin…

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Currently reading: Under Smuts's Rule by Bongani Ngqculunga

The best book I read last year.

Why global law firms keep quitting South Africa currencynews.co.za/why-global-law… via Currency

Listen to the voice of Sol Plaatje in this first recording of "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika", made on October 16, 1923, in London, England, by Sol T Plaatje himself, accompanied by Sylvia Colenso on the piano.

Rabobi!!! 🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦❤️🇿🇦

Heroism, horror and the ‘pits of hell’: Over two days in October 2025, up to 10,000 people are believed to have been massacred; a further 40,000 civilians from the Sudanese city are still unaccounted for. This is the story of what happened. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Stanford just tested whether LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters’ AI legal research tools are really “hallucination-free,” as they claim. Spoiler: not even close. Here’s what the study found.

Henry David Thoreau, “Not till we are lost ... do we begin to find ourselves” (“Walden”)