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The members and alumni of the Global Young Academy (GYA) urge governments, universities and scientific organisations to take immediate action to secure the lives and careers of Afghanistan's scholars and students. A particular focus is necessary to protect women, children, and at-risk groups.
It's time to tackle the cumulative barriers and biases faced by scientists who aren't from wealthy countries.
The European People's Party (EPP) is calling on the Commission and member states to fund emergency placements for Afghan researchers and academics at European higher education and research institutions. One of the EPP's lead MEPs, Christian Ehler, said scientists in Afghanistan risk being persecuted by the Taliban, after the islamist group took over the country when the US military and its allies pulled out.
Governments and companies urgently need to share data on the mounting volume of satellites and debris orbiting Earth.
A recent visit to the site of the first atomic bomb explosion offered desert vistas, (mildly) radioactive pebbles and troubling reflections.
Policy makers and lobbyists in Brussels want to explicitly limit access for scientists in countries that flout academic freedom and intellectual property rights.
International financial institutions say that vaccines are the highest-return investment on Earth - it is past time for them to pay up.
The U.S. government has thrown up hurdles that make collaborating with researchers from other countries a bureaucratic hassle. And if they don’t follow the rules carefully, they could end up in trouble.
Pressing global challenges including the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, food security and future global health crises will require collaboration.
It could take years to reveal the true impact of closed borders, cancelled travel plans and vaccine delays.
Rivalry between China and other countries could diminish global scientific collaboration - just when it is most needed.
Brussels presented a new global research agenda on Tuesday, committing to a more cautious approach to cooperation with foreign science powers, while at the same time pledging to reinvigorate ties with an EU-friendly US administration.
There should be a science-based policymaking process in disaster risk reduction.
Global migration flows show a profound diversification of migrants' groups in recent years. Their patterns of nationality, ethnicity, language, age, gender and legal status are growing ever more complex and migrants with 'new diversity' traits live in cities alongside people from previous immigration waves. Prof. Steven Vertovec's comparative study helps understand how old and new waves of migrants meet, mix, interact and get integrated into a given society.
The World Health Organization’s director-general urges developed world to donate Covid vaccines to Covax programme.
Revisiting a 2018 post discussing that for social science and humanities researchers in many parts of the world there are significant barriers to conducting and sharing research, in some cases more so than for science and medicine. In this revisited guest post, Dr. Naveen Minai provides a perspective as a gender studies researcher in Pakistan.
The virus will overwhelm health services across South America, Asia and Africa unless world leaders take urgent action.
A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform.
Analysis reveals three ways to boost green investment and achieve a resilient recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
A treaty might help countries to prepare for the next pandemic - but first they must study what went wrong during this one.
Did Covid-19 come from animal markets? It's unclear. Did it emerge from a lab? Also unclear. Here's what a new W.H.O. report says - including questions that the agency's own chief raised about the findings.
The pandemic is not a competition between companies and will not end without more-equal distribution of coronavirus vaccines.
Scientists say the conclusions make sense but note that supporters of the lab-leak theory are unlikely to be satisfied.
Lifesaving research on fighting drought and climate change at risk after snap decision to halt crucial funding.
Major research projects will be cancelled, including those designed to head off future disease threats, warn scientists.
The European Commission is trying to block countries outside the European Union from participating in quantum computing and space projects under Horizon Europe, its new research funding program.
B.1.351 may sound sweet to a molecular epidemiologist, but what's the alternative, other than stigmatizing geographical names?
Not one Covid jab had been administered in 130 of the world's poorer countries by mid-February, says the Guardian editor, author and presenter Kanishk Tharoor.
Outlawing ecocide would hold governments and corporations accountable for environmental negligence. We can't wait.
At the 40th session of UNESCO’s General Conference, 193 Members States tasked the Organization with the development of an international standard-setting instrument on Open Science in the form of a UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to be adopted by Member States in 2021.
