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The southern part of the Indian Ocean is experiencing an increasing number of powerful, intense tropical cyclones. This places parts of southern Africa, particularly places like Madagascar, Mozambique and the islands of Reunion and Mauritius, in the eye of potentially devastating storms. Jennifer Fitchett explains this worrying new trend in the region’s climate.
And Sergio Daniel Michel Chavez explores what the first leftist presidency in Mexico’s modern history (that begins on December 1) means for the country’s future.
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Heavy rains driven by a cyclone in Sana’a, Yemen.
EPA-EFE/YAHYA ARHAB
Jennifer Fitchett, University of the Witwatersrand
The frequency of intense tropical cyclones is increasing in the South Indian Ocean - a region that previously didn't have these.
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Mexico’s President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks about the upcoming changes his administration will impose on national security during the national peace and security plan conference in Mexico City on Nov. 14, 2018.
(AP Photo/Anthony Vazquez)
Sergio Daniel Michel Chavez, Carleton University
The success or failure of Mexico's new president will have an impact on politics in the rest of Latin America as right-wing forces reclaim power. Is a brighter future for the region possible?
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Kahlil Gibran, The Divine World (1923), Illustration for The Prophet, Charcoal.
Gibran Museum
Antonia Pont, Deakin University
After Shakespeare and Laozi, Kahlil Gibran is the highest selling poet ever, largely thanks to The Prophet, a set of 26 prose poems.
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Health + Medicine
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Philip A Loring, University of Guelph; Ratana Chuenpagdee, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Many people focus just on agriculture and new technologies for feeding the world's growing population. Yet, fisheries are the centerpiece of billions of people's diets.
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Ivica Petrikova, Royal Holloway
Child undernourishment rates are worse in India than in Ethiopia.
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Sharing stories in the South Hebron Hills.
On Our Land Project
Elly Harrowell, Coventry University; Patricia Sellick, Coventry University
Cultural heritage establishes closer ties between a community and the land it lives – and relies – on.
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Mstyslav Chernov
Andreas Winkler, University of Oxford
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza, lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who built these vast structures.
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