The future of AI in journalism will depend on a balance between benefits and risk, and raising audience comfort, trust and news literacy.
From being custodians of public knowledge, governments are turning to architects of manufactured ignorance. Amid disappearing evidence, citizens are struggling to hold power to account
AI is reshaping the news ecosystem in the fields of search, fact-checking and personalised feeds. If used well, it can support journalism and strengthen democracy.
Environmental indices may appear objective, but the choices made in developing them are shaped by different worldviews that influence the results sharply. (more…)
Electric vehicles can reduce pollution and emissions. But underlying issues of preserving car dependence, displacing environmental harm and workers bearing the costs of a clean future need to be addressed. (more…)
Partnerships with China, not protectionism, will determine affordable, interoperable and equitable global decarbonisation and energy security. (more…)
Climate change is increasingly driving displacement, raising urgent questions about development models that foster unequal growth while exacerbating ecological risk. (more…)
From floods to heatwaves, cascading climate disasters expose mounting vulnerabilities demanding coordinated scientific and policy responses. (more…)
India’s ethanol push boosts energy security and farm incomes, but consumers remain unconvinced amid mileage and price concerns. (more…)
Evolutionary game theory is useful to devise strategies for real-life situations such as international negotiations and ecological crises, where players are unequal, and choices are complex (more…)
Melting ice is opening new shipping routes and resource frontiers, turning the Arctic and Greenland into focal points of great-power competition. (more…)
