“An extreme season”: Glaciers vanishing at record rate in Alps following heatwaves
EMMA FARGE and GLORIA DICKIE, of Reuters, report on the European Alps retreating glaciers…
Same-sex marriage sparks divisive debate at twice-delayed Lambeth Conference
London, UKRNS Anglican bishops from all over the world began the Lambeth Conference this week amid a furious conflict over same-sex marriage and a scramble by the archbishop of Canterbury and other church leaders to defuse it. The conference, meeting for the first time in 14 years, was supposed to be an attempt to bring […]
Essay: Top democracy activists were executed in Myanmar – four key things to know
US-based scholar of Myanmar politics and culture, THARAPHI THAN, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the execution this week of four pro-democracy activists in Myanmar…
Russia tells NASA space station pullout less imminent than indicated earlier
Washington DC, USReuters Russian space officials have informed their US counterparts that Moscow would like to keep flying its cosmonauts on the International Space Station at least until their own orbital outpost is built, a senior NASA official told Reuters on Wednesday. Yuri Borisov, the newly appointed director-general of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, surprised NASA […]
Sight-Seeing: Proclaim debt amnesty throughout all the land? A Biblical solution to a present-day problem
In an article first published on The Conversation, EVA VON DASSOW, associate professor of Ancient History at the University of Minnesota, looks at how the idea of debt relief emerged in ancient cultures and how a Biblical model of amnesty could help those facing burdensome student debts in countries like the US today…
COVID helps lift homelessness among Australian youth to “alarming” levels, says Mission Australia
Geelong, Australia As many as one in 20 Australian young people aged 15-to-19-years-old reported experiencing homelessness for the first time during the COVID pandemic, according to a new survey from Mission Australia. The figure is a significant increase on the one in 25 who reported experiencing homelessness in a 2017 report. Data from the organisation’s […]