The Pacific islands struggling to survive

The article in Swedish: Stillahavsöarna som kämpar för att överleva A volcanic eruption in the north, recurring flooding and on top of that, a direct threat from Donald Trump. “How do you sleep at night?” I asked Vanuatu’s minister for climate change, Ralph

Sammanhang: ...The property owner dumped construction waste outside the organisation’s entrance after the big earthquake two years ago. “A lot of people think our office is closed,” Flora sighs in frustration. We talk about her testimony in The Hague and about the effects of the climate crisis in Vanuatu. ...

Omnämnda platser: Bokaitoktok, Island, Netherlands. Omnämnda personer: Christiana Figueres, Donald Trump, Middle East.

”Scientists Portrayed as Mass Murderers”

For a Swedish version, read here. Outside an underground lecture hall at Tokyo University a crowd is bustling. Neuroscientists, psychologists, physicists, computer scientists and other experts have gathered here to discuss consciousness – the elusive inner

Sammanhang: ... – Well, the field is doomed in my opinion, Hakwan Lau replies. – I think you should be more nuanced, says Liad Mudrik. Hakwan Lau informs her that he has resigned from his position as a consciousness researcher...

Omnämnda platser: Photo, Conducting, Venice. Omnämnda personer: John Lennon, with questions, Philip Goff.

Så tog elbilarna över i Norge

Det är i början av 1990-talet och i Norge skapar en udda duo rubriker. I en Fiat panda ombyggd för eldrift sitter Frederic Hauge, grundare av miljöorganisationen Bellona, och Morten Harket, sångare i det norska succébandet A-ha. Bilen har de köpt i Schweiz.

Sammanhang: ...De norska tillverkarna kämpade i motvind. Pivco bytte namn till Think och byggde en fabrik väster om Oslo för sin nyutvecklade modell. Men så kom finanskrisen och efter en skakig färd med flera ägare, däribland amerikanska Ford, gick Think slutligen under 2011. ...

Omnämnda platser: Pnas, Stavanger, Norge. Omnämnda personer: Christina Bu, Einar Leknes, Jamieson Pothecary.