The Conversation

By Gareth Evans-Jones Imagine getting into a London taxi. Someone is sitting in the driver’s seat, but the car is driving itself. If the autonomous system gets into difficulty, they… …

By Alberto Ardid Whakaari/White Island’s sudden eruption in December 2019, which killed 22 people and severely injured 25 others, was New Zealand’s deadliest volcanic disaster in recent history. But it… …

By Alice Mũrage and Julia Smith When it comes to gender-based violence (GBV) Canada has made legal and policy strides over the past decades, and indeed the past few years.… …

By Nick Turner, Julian Barling, and Kaylee Somerville Heat warnings have stretched across Canada this summer, from Atlantic Canada and southern British Columbia to the Prairies, central Canada and the… …

By Farhan M. Asrar I woke up today seeing that my windows appeared to have an yellow/orange tint to them, signalling that wildfire smoke was upon my city and reminding… …

By Megan Edgelow A recent Ontario Coroner’s Review documented 34 deaths by suicide among correctional workers over the past 15 years, with 17 of those deaths occurring since 2020. Correctional… …

By Margaret McGregor, Deborah Curran, Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, Kevin Berk, and Tim K. Takaro In May, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced plans to double the capacity of Canada’s electricity grid by… …

By Brian Bossak Millions of Americans are facing dangerous heat and humidity going into the July Fourth holiday as a major heat wave spreads across large parts of the central… …

By Ian Williams Heat is no longer a future climate risk. It is already here. Across continents, high temperatures are being pushed higher by forces acting at once: human-caused warming,… …