How forest protection is integral to tackling climate change
According to a new Nature study, protecting forests globally could potentially capture an additional 226 gigatons of planet-warming carbon, equivalent to about a third of the amount that humans have released since the beginning of the Industrial Era. If you weren’t already aware, forests play a critical role in the...
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British start-up develops STI-testing tampon
Daye, a former femcare firm that’s now a gynaecological health company, has launched a new at-home screening service for chlamydia, gonorrhoea, and other common sexually transmitted infections with the hope it will encourage more women to seek treatment. Let’s be honest, getting tested for a sexually transmitted infection is never...
Study finds period insecurity may stop girls from playing sports
The Youth Sports Trust has found low confidence related to menstruation stops girls from enjoying PE in schools. Government efforts have been geared toward the health and fitness of UK children for the past few years, as campaigns around obesity and physical activity begin to infiltrate more aspects...
Denmark’s plant-based roadmap sees massive success
The Danish government published a plan that gives insight into how it will transition toward widespread plant-based alternative foods in 2021. The first round of funding applications has been massively oversubscribed. Denmark has seen huge success in its efforts to transition into plant-based foods nationwide. Proposals were published by the...
SailGP announces new plastic-free sportswear
What does the launch mean for the future of sustainable fashion? And, more importantly, do consumers want it? Ask anyone, and they’ll probably tell you that sustainability is fashion’s new black. Eco-consciousness – authentic or not – has become the trendiest accessory of late, and brands are hitching a ride...
Is free-speech under threat in UK universities?
Newly appointed university free-speech tsar Arif Ahmed certainly thinks so. Conversations around free-speech, particularly in our education systems, can often feel like a minefield. The growing concern around ‘culture wars’ and ‘cancel culture’ in recent years has only exacerbated this fact, with many expressing fears of academic freedom in UK universities. Government...
Opinion – Turning Hitler’s birthplace into a police station is too on the nose
As work begins on the controversial project, Austria’s Ministry of the Interior is facing criticism from both locals and the global online community. When Austria announced its decision to turn Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into a police station, their Ministry of the Interior was met with bemusement and criticism. At the centre of the conversation was a debate about the symbolic implications of such a move. Those spearheading the project said...
Greenland’s Indigenous women deserve more than financial compensation
A group of women in Greenland say Danish doctors involuntarily sterilised them with intrauterine devices. Indigenous women across the globe have a traumatic historical relationship with genocide. Attempts to wipe-out indigenous populations have been pervasive across the West and beyond, but they appear in many forms, some more overtly insidious than others. From ‘residential schools’ to social and financial isolation, Indigenous people have and continue to face both casual and...
Climate change has displaced 43.1m children in six years
Just last week, UNICEF published a harrowing report highlighting the impacts of surging global temperatures and increasingly frequent extreme weather events on the victims most vulnerable to these unforgiving conditions between 2016 and 2021. Already vulnerable youth have become unwitting victims of a crisis they did not cause. This is according to UNICEF, which just last week published a harrowing report highlighting that climate change has displaced...
Viral video prompts renewed calls for safety measures on public transport
Following a series of recent incidents that involve women being targeted and harassed while trying to get home, social media users are demanding more intervention from staff at stations. ‘If you act up, I’ll follow you.’ These are the distressing words of a man in a viral video which made the rounds on social media this weekend. Late at night, he had climbed across train tracks to harass the woman filming,...
