The Rohingya Crisis Is Also a Climate Story
The humanitarian response continues to be framed almost entirely around protection from persecution, rather than around long-term resilience to recurring environmental shocks.
Opinion
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Who Controls Science?
Competing narratives emerge not because evidence is inherently ambiguous, but because power determines which knowledge is visible, legitimate, or silenced.
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World Ocean Day 2026 Advocates for Strong Marine Protected Areas
Boundaries matter only if we enforce them, and if they are put in the right places to begin with.
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The Myth of the Irreplaceable Scientist
To create fair promotion and evaluation systems, academia might learn something from biology: Cells do not rely on one individual; tissues survive because they are adaptable and redundant.
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What Happens to the Next Generation of Scientists if Politicians, Not Peers, Determine Research Funding
Fewer trainees today will mean fewer scientific discoveries tomorrow.
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Lessons in Resilience
People who have been forcibly displaced by conflicts — such as those in Syria and Ukraine — can show Americans how to thrive despite adversity.
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Facts Won’t Fix It
Repairing our social fabric means getting on the same page about what moral standards we want to uphold.
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Below the Surface
Introducing a new comics column on fish, people, and the science and politics that connect them.
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Letter From Geneva: America Is Retreating From Systems It Still Needs
The world still relies on the UN health agency during emergencies. It simply does so now with fewer illusions about political solidarity.
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We’ve Spent Four Years Talking About Governing AI. Geneva Has to Actually Do It.
Global Dialogues on AI Governance need to amplify voices of AI middle and emerging powers and support capacity building for the Global Majority countries.