UC Davis Sustainable Development Leadership Initiative| Global Affairs
A study of a circular agriculture project in China shows both the promise and the political challenges for smallholder farmers’ autonomy and fair representation.| Eos
Boreal-permafrost systems are still resilient against wildfires, but continuous and long-term monitoring is needed to control the impact of climate change.| Eos
Tote bags have been introduced in an effort to curtail plastic waste, as their reusability means offering customers environmentally friendly options. However, major companies, labels, and events have been treating tote bags as if they’re single-use items, leading to personal accumulation of tote bags in the homes of individual| Arts Help
Written by Dr Kamsiah Ali The FSSH CARE Project: Community Wellbeing and Crime Prevention is a core component of the CARE Assessment under the Deviance and Rehabilitation Services course, designed to immerse students in real-world community| UNIMAS Gazette
Artistic reflections around war, much like war itself, have been an awfully male-dominated affair. The Women’s Media Center cites an estimate that only 15 to 20 percent of news photographers are women—a field with very few female figures, such as Lee Miller and Gerda Taro, gaining widespread fame.| Arts Help
This piece explores how empathy, when practiced consistently and deeply, can serve as a powerful motivator in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. By countering desensitization and embracing empathy starting from within, individuals can take meaningful action toward a more equitable, compassionate, and sustainable world.| Global Affairs
At the end of July 2022, artists Gillie and Marc installed the world’s largest sculpture of an octopus at the World Trade Center in New York City, USA. The duo have been known for their public sculptures of wildlife that advocate for their conservation. Hence, following the same vein,| Arts Help
Scientists warn that the future of our oceans and climate goals depends on reconnecting the ecological threads that hold coastal habitats together. A new study, launched at the International Seascape Symposium II at ZSL (Zoological Society of London), and published to align with UN Ocean Decade Conference represents two years of work by an international team led by the University of Portsmouth, with support from ZSL and University of Edinburgh. It delivers the most comprehensive report to dat...| Project Seagrass
In this article, Project Seagrass CEO Dr Leanne Cullen-Unsworth reflects on the United Nations Ocean Conference: The 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference, co-organized by Costa Rica and France was held in the coastal city of Nice, France from 9 to 13 June. Over 15,000 people participated, including 2,000 scientists and more than 60 world leaders. Discussions aimed to shine a light on the challenges of unlocking sustainable ocean investment and how to reinforce the role of marine science in po...| Project Seagrass
The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons| Inter Press Service
Written by Dayangku Norasyikin Awang Tejuddin Samarahan, 23 May 2025 – Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) continues to lead by example in cultivating civic awareness and leadership among youth through an engaging outreach program at SK Bukit| UNIMAS Gazette
Macro-level monitoring of remittance-sending costs must be complemented by fine-grained analysis of short-term cost variations, says Haiqa Sarosh Fatima.| Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Adaptive social behaviour is considered the backbone of the evolution of modern human society. We often consider socialization as essential to human life, with real case studies in instances of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic showing increased rates of anxiety and psychological distress due to social isolation. However, humans have a| Arts Help
In a remarkable recognition of his lifelong commitment to sustainability, York University’s Charles Hopkins has earned the esteemed 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).| Faculty of Education
The Institute of Borneo Studies held a one-day workshop called “Latihan Pendekatan Antropologi dalam Libatsama Komuniti Orang Ulu di Sarawak” on 14 May 2025 (Wednesday) at Hotel Telang Usan, Kuching. The workshop focused on how to| UNIMAS Gazette
Seven faculty and staff members from UC Davis are being recognized for their outstanding global engagement work with two key awards: the Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement and the Excellence in Teaching for Global Learning Award. These awards recognize the outstanding work of UC Davis faculty and staff in international education, research and service.| Global Affairs
The Association of University Presses opens another University Press Week promotion with readings and events for consumers.| Publishing Perspectives
It hits me now in my sleepless nights that history may move in widening circles ending in a final sixth mass extinction of most of life on our planet,| Impakter
When considering their talent pipelines, few companies think outside-of-the-box. Most refugees flourish in the workplace, and so do the businesses that hire them.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Honey gathering is a solitary job in Indigenous communities. The collector then shares the honey with their community but refrains from joining in the honey feast themself. The idea is that the gathering is not about their gratification, it’s about their contribution to the collective.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Due to the collapse of a factory in Bangladesh, it provoked international action to improve workplace safety and labour conditions in the globalised garment industry.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
How much does political corruption cost the community? We set out to quantify the negativities of corruption in terms of lost investment, jobs not created, and hampered economic growth.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Setting fire to parts of a forest to save it might seem counterintuitive to urban communities. There is no equivalent of torching a few streets to protect a suburb. However, amongst First Nations people in Australia, hazard reduction burning is a well-established practice.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
How much electricity will we need in the future? We don’t know the answer and yet governments must make decisions, set policies and plan for the absolute certainly that is climate change.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Around the world companies are updating their reporting practices. More than 95% of the world’s largest companies report on their sustainability matters.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Over the next 50 years people living in low-income nations will undertake one of this century’s defining megatrends: rapid urbanisation.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Australia is still a settler-colonial society. We are locked into a deficit discourse, meaning many Australians don’t actually believe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are capable of devising solutions for their issues.| Sydney Business Insights (SBI)
Plus US federal procurement officials get more data to make better decisions: Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence| www.globalgovernmentforum.com
Gender equality can’t be achieved by the UN Agenda 2030 due to a lack of feminist policymaking. The UN Sustainable Development Goals fail The post Achieving sustainable development: the shortcomings of the UN SDGs and the need for feminist policymaking first appeared on Young Feminist Europe.| Young Feminist Europe