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The range of adverse mental health effects resulting from climate change include triggering or exacerbating anxiety, depression, grief, and suicide. Natural phenomena from heatwaves and droughts to floods and fires that are fueled by climate change cause trauma, distress, and other mental health conditions. So can chronic, slow-onset effects of global warming, such as water and food insecurity, community breakdown, and conflict. Members of marginalized groups, especially Indigenous peoples, feel these effects in unique and especially acute […]

Alexandra Vacroux, Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics, (on leave from Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for 2024-2025), returns with an update on the war in Ukraine. Three years in, and the war in Ukraine continues. Russia is sending drones and ballistic missiles to hit both civilian and military […]

Social media platforms have become increasingly opaque at precisely the moment their influence on society has reached unprecedented levels. Over the long-term, we need to conceptualize true independent transparency as an infrastructure project built on four pillars—government requirements & legal protections, international standards, shared tooling, and sustainable funding. We are making slow but steady progress […]