The Conversation, Author at Bergensia

Articles

The UN’s 1.5°C special climate report at a glance

Limiting global warming 1.5℃ will be profoundly challenging given current policies. Chart data: Climate Action Tracker / Image: AAP Emil Jeyaratnam, The Conversation; Madeleine De Gabriele, The Conversation, and Michael Hopkin, The Conversation The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a…

Articles

Kavanaugh confirmation a reminder: Accused sexual harassers get promoted anyway

Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon One day after hearing emotional testimony from accuser Christine Blasey Ford, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice pending an FBI investigation. For millions of American…

Articles

Armed by the Kremlin, Gazprom could be the new force in Syria when the troops leave

In the corridors of power: Russian president Vladimir Putin with Gazprom chief executive Alexei Miller. Kremlin Nicolai Due-Gundersen, Kingston University We will support oil and gas companies but we will also control their work – Russian president Vladimir Putin The…

Articles

Migrants: deaths in the name of law

Migrants in Sangatte, 2008. No border Network/Flickr, CC BY-SA Thomas Lindemann, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay et Shoshana Fine, Sciences Po – USPC Seventeen years later, the 2,996 people killed in the 9/11 attacks continue to be mourned,…

Articles

How Canada is inspiring Scandinavian countries on immigration

A Muslim woman wearing a hijab headscarf stands side by side with a punk woman with a green mohawk at a rally in support of Syrian refugees in Oslo, Norway, in 2015. (Shutterstock) Trygve Ugland, Bishop’s University As a wave…

Articles

Sweden election: yes, the far right made gains, but we’re not falling apart

As the far-right Sweden Democrats’ (Sverigedemokraterna) with its nationalist agenda makes ground, Neo-Nazi groups, fascism, racism and hateful ignorance gains momentum in Sweden. Anamaria Dutceac Segesten, Lund University Sweden is recovering after a very tense election night. The centre-right and…

Articles

Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our planet’s

Smaller portions reduce food waste and waistlines. from www.shutterstock.com Liza Barbour, Monash University and Julia McCartan, Monash University Globally, one-third of food produced for human consumption is wasted. Food waste costs Australia A$20 billion each year and is damaging our…

Articles

Jury finds Monsanto liable in the first Roundup cancer trial – here’s what could happen next

Plaintiff Dewayne Johnson reacts after hearing the verdict in his case against Monsanto at the Superior Court of California in San Francisco, Aug. 10, 2018. Josh Edelson/Pool Photo via AP Author: Richard G. “Bugs” Stevens, University of Connecticut In the first of…

Articles

Tiny beads, big problem, easy fix: why scientific evidence supports a ban on microbeads

Thegreenj, CC BY-SA Chelsea Rochman, University of California, Davis and Sara Kross, University of California, Davis Every day, millions of people around the world wash their skin and brush their teeth with products containing tiny pieces of plastic. Plastic microbeads…

Bergensia

Bergensia

Author: The Conversation

The UN’s 1.5°C special climate report at a glance

Kavanaugh confirmation a reminder: Accused sexual harassers get promoted anyway

Armed by the Kremlin, Gazprom could be the new force in Syria when the troops leave

Migrants: deaths in the name of law

How Canada is inspiring Scandinavian countries on immigration

Sweden election: yes, the far right made gains, but we’re not falling apart

Reducing food waste can protect our health, as well as our planet’s

Jury finds Monsanto liable in the first Roundup cancer trial – here’s what could happen next

Tiny beads, big problem, easy fix: why scientific evidence supports a ban on microbeads

Recent Posts

India Suffers from Modis Hybris

COVID-19 Vaccines: Norway could have played a crucial role as chair of the TRIPS Council, as a member of the UN Security Council, and as a large donor.

Watching a coral reef die as climate change devastates one of the most pristine tropical island areas on Earth

Male voices dominate the news. Here’s how journalists and female experts can turn this around