
National insecurity: what happens when countries start to lose their sense of identity?
Borrowed from psychiatry, the term “ontological security” describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.
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Borrowed from psychiatry, the term “ontological security” describes how nations understand themselves and their place in the world – and how it can break down.

The best part of having fun with rhymes and words, noticing letters and reading together is that interactions build both early literacy skills and family connections.

The US had been reducing surface-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main component of smog, but that changed as wildfire activity picked up around 2015.

Investors’ inflation expectations, much more than the central bank, are among the factors that affect the cost of home loans.

There is no shortage of global objectives and targets driving ocean conservation. However, protecting oceans depends on the communities that steward them.

Two years after Canada’s parliament unwittingly gave a standing ovation to a veteran of a Nazi SS division, Ukraine’s own president is honouring figures from the same dark chapter of wartime nationalism.

In Agbogbloshie, Ghana, thousands of young women and men burn electronic waste to extract minerals at a cost to their health. They need more protection.

Uganda’s environmental impact assessment law requires developers to consider alternatives to reduce environmental harm.

Genomics-based surveillance can help us identify the prevalence of mosquito-borne viruses across the country.

Education systems across southern Africa must better prepare for a hotter future.

The Scottish parliament has its biggest ever pro-independence majority.

Russia has launched its biggest drone and missile strikes of the war to date. But Ukraine has hit back effectively.