Liquid solutions: As Nepal runs dry, communities tap water harvesting

PRAMOD ACHARYA, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how rainwater harvesting projects could offer a solution to thirsty towns in Nepal…
Compassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah says

Canterbury, UK Reuters Europe should greet migrants with compassion rather than barbed wire and the British Government is “rather nasty” about those who seek asylum, said Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Gurnah, who explored the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals in his books, said he […]
Essay: Edmund Burke wouldn’t recognise evangelicals’ vaccine resistance as conservatism

In an article first published on Religion News Service, STEPHANIE A MARTIN, author of ‘Decoding the Digital Church: Evangelical Storytelling and the Election of Donald J Trump’, looks at how conservatism has changed in the US – particularly among Christians…