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Mar 12, 2025

Pause in aid has introduced uncertainty into Ukraine’s military planning − forever changing its war calculus

Ph. Is the Sun setting on Ukraine’s offensive capabilities? Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images Benjamin Jensen, American University School of International Service War is a numbers game. Each side involved must marshal the supplies, troops and firepower needed to sustain the fight, thwart advancing armies and, hopefully, prevail. But it’s also a

Mar 11, 2025

Why a US minerals deal with Ukraine won’t deter Russian aggression

Patrick E. Shea, University of Glasgow The US vice-president, J.D. Vance, recently told Fox News that “the very best security guarantee” to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine again was “to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine”. The implication is that the much-debated minerals deal, in which an investment fund managed

Mar 10, 2025

What’s behind Erdoğan’s calculated shift on Kurds and its potential consequences

Spyros A. Sofos, Simon Fraser University On March 1, the start of the holy month of Ramadan — observed by most of Turkey’s Sunni population — the imprisoned leader of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Abdullah Öcalan, made a historic call for the party to disarm and end its 40-year-long armed struggle against

Mar 7, 2025

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study

George Wittemyer, Colorado State University Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as access to remote areas takes logistical planning, funding and well-trained teams. Surveys can easily be derailed by civil

Mar 6, 2025

Mars time machine: researchers create virtual model to decode Red Planet’s climate evolution

An international team of researchers is developing a model of Mars’s evolution that could unlock some of its long-held secrets, including whether it once harboured life. François Forget, a space scientist from the Pierre Simon Laplace Institute in France, is the man looking for those answers. He is not a time traveller, but

Mar 5, 2025

Elon Musk is firing thousands of workers – why this could be the biggest jobs cut in US history

Thomas Gift, UCL Elon Musk is wielding a chainsaw against US government departments, potentially culling tens of thousands of jobs, as part of a huge plan to shrink the government and slash federal spending. This large-scale purge of public servants, coordinated through Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), may end up creating one

Mar 4, 2025

Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that the US has millions of Spanish speakers and a long multilingual history

Daniel J. Olson, Purdue University English should be the official language of the United States, says a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump on March 1, 2025. The move follows the Trump administration’s termination of the Spanish-language version of the White House website and its Spanish-language account on X, formerly Twitter.

Mar 3, 2025

Raised voices and angry scenes at the White House as Trump clashes with Zelensky over the ‘minerals deal’

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tetyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy The visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House has not gone to plan – at least not to his plan. There were extraordinary scenes as a press conference between Zelensky and Trump descended into acrimony, with the

Mar 3, 2025

New lease of life: transforming biowaste into a valuable resource

Central Macedonia, a region on the northern mainland of Greece, is an important producer of food. It generates a quarter of the country’s agricultural output and is the source of much of Greece’s table olives, peaches, wine and dairy products. But this productivity also results in large amounts of agricultural waste. EU-funded researchers

Feb 28, 2025

Climate change could make more turtles female – but some are starting to adapt

Ph. A loggerhead turtle nesting. Mollie Rickwood, CC BY-NC-ND Mollie Rickwood, University of Exeter; Annette Broderick, University of Exeter, and Robin Snape, University of Exeter Rising global temperatures are a particularly acute threat for the world’s sea turtles. That’s because the temperature of a turtle’s nest controls the sex of their offspring. Coming

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