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Facebook has temporarily removed the ability for people to search the friends lists of accounts based in Afghanistan, in response to concerns that the Taliban could use social media to target people with US or UK contacts. Dr Eric Jensen of the Department of Sociology comments.

It was announced yesterday, 9th July 2021 that climate change has got worse.

The IPCC (Intergovernmental panel on climate change) – a UN group studied 14,000 academic papers related to climate change, and branded it "code red for humanity", but what exactly does this mean? Dr Marta Guerriero, Deputy Head of Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick explains.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading authority on climate, has published its latest report. Professor João Porto de Albuquerque, Director at the Institute for Global Sustainable Development at the University of Warwick, comments.

Global health ethics expert Dr Sharifah Sekalala from Warwick Law School comments on the WHO's call for a moratorium on administering booster jabs of Covid-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first dose.

The UK State of the Climate report, published today, suggests that the UK is already feeling the impact of disruptive climate change. Dr Jonathan Clarke, from the Global Sustainable Development programme at the University of Warwick, comments on how society needs to prepare for these effects.