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El Niño typically causes drought in Australia, parts of southern Asia and Indonesia. : Unsplash: Josh Withers https://unsplash.com/license

Current evidence suggests both El Niño and La Niña could change significantly over the next 70 years, which will have consequences for how they impact us.

El Nino returns

How will El Niño change in the future?

Current evidence suggests both El Niño and La Niña could change significantly over the next 70 years, which will have consequences for how they impact us.

Environment
With space transport becoming cheaper by the day, off-Earth mining is now a feasible option. : Image by NASA available at https://tinyurl.com/k2uvhc8p NASA

Private companies and governments are reaching for the stars in an effort to ease Earth-bound shortages.

Space mining

Why space is the next frontier in mining

Private companies and governments are reaching for the stars in an effort to ease Earth-bound shortages.

Economy
India’s One Nation, One Subscription plan would give public libraries like this access to the worlds top scholarly journals. : raghavvidya, Flickr CC 2.0

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

Science for all

India-wide subscription to research journals paves path for Global South

With rising fees for research journals, India is pressing ahead with a nation-wide subscription to allow more people to access science.

Science
Financial barriers posed by global publishing houses have inspired African scholars to find new ways of sharing information. : University of Cape Town CC 4.0

Attempts to more fairly share scientific knowledge have had the opposite effect in Africa. But a new initiative is bringing true equity.

Science for all

How Africa is overcoming ‘knowledge colonialism’

Science

Researchers can’t progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and their fees has begun.

Science for all

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Science
Indian science has been distracted from its plan to share research findings : CDC Global Health CC 2.0

India was an early leader in sharing research and information for science. But it has fumbled since then.

Science for all

India’s fumbled chance for sharing knowledge

Science
Roughly half of the world’s research publications are paywalled. : Michael Joiner, 360info CC BY 4.0

A big issue for publishing scientific research has been the cost. With the push for open access, new business models create new challenges for equitable access.

 

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Special Report

Science for all

Science
Bajau children swim in front of their village : Torben Venning

Developing economies need research to improve quality of life. Combining developed and developing economies into a research consortium builds capacity.

Education brain drain

Indonesia: Challenging ‘exploitative’ fly-in, fly-out research

Education