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What happens to a country that disbands its military and invests the money saved in health and education? If Costa Rica is anything to go by, doing so makes that country the happiest and greenest place on Earth, according to international rankings. But as Ariana López Peña writes, measuring happiness and environmentalism in under-developed nations can generate deceptive results.
Enjoy this and the best of our content from the week, from religion in Pakistan to the endangered gorillas of the Central African Republic.
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A man flies a kite at the Peace Park in San José, Costa Rica.
Juan Carlos Ulate/Reuters
Ariana López Peña, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Environmental sustainability has a role in increasing national well-being.
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Arts + Culture
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Donna Fernandes, Habib University
A common place of worship in India and Pakistan offers solace and bonds religious minorities in Pakistan.
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Maha Bali, American University in Cairo
We must know people as they would like to be known, not as some dominant power has decided we shall know them.
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Environment + Energy
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Shelly Masi, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN) – Sorbonne Universités
Primate populations are declining around the world. The great apes are in danger of disappearing, and that bears a great risk for humanity itself.
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Matthew McCartney, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; Max Finlayson, Charles Sturt University
Wetlands management is vital but sweeping statements about their universal value may do more harm than good.
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Health + Medicine
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Michael Gillings, Macquarie University
Unless we do something about about antibiotic pollution in the world's waterways, the next trip you take to the coast for a seafood dinner just might be your last.
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