Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.

A new study examines one program’s impact on employment and incarceration.

We are actually living through a slow-motion crisis which has been decades in the making and is set to continue. Understanding what is really happening is a vital first step to finding a way out.

A new economic model would need to be win/win, far different from the win/lose paradigm under which we’ve been operating.

In a time of unprecedented division, rising inequality and intensifying climate change, it’s easy to feel that progress is impossible.

There are certain product changes that businesses can and do make to try to quietly fold increased costs into prices. Here are three to look out for

In the midst of today’s cost of living crisis, many people who are critical of the idea of economic growth see an opportunity.

In simple terms, digital money can be defined as a form of currency that uses computer networks to make payments. 

The koala was clinging to an old tree stag while stranded in the Murray River, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. A team of students from La Trobe University noticed its predicament as they were paddling by in canoes.

Off the coastline of southern Africa lies the Great African Seaforest, and Australia boasts the Great Southern Reef around its southern reaches. There are many more vast but unnamed underwater forests all over the world.

The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.

The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces. In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress code than with the impending collapse of the country into famine.

‘If only they made better life choices’ – simplistic explanations of poverty and food insecurity miss the mark.