Health·6 min read
Is there really a spoonful of plastic in the brain?
The 2025 finding travelled the world as a single vivid image. The study behind it is more interesting, more uncertain and more useful than the image suggests.
The Long Read
The Fire Does Not Stop at the Border
In 1991, the oil wells of Kuwait burned for most of a year and their smoke and oil crossed into neighbouring states. It remains the only time the world made a state pay for the environmental damage of a war. Thirty-five years later, oil is burning again in the same region.
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Technology·6 min read
Can we still believe what we see on video?
We were taught to believe our eyes and ears. That habit has become the easiest thing in the world to exploit, and the strangest part is what it does to the truth.
Law·7 min read
Who pays for climate damage?
A Peruvian farmer lost his case against a German energy company, but the court accepted the principle behind it. The International Court of Justice has since defined what states owe. Neither has yet answered the question on which compensation depends.
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Aleksić Perspectives
Opinion·5 min read
The Last Address of Responsibility
By Srđan Aleksić
When the author of a harm cannot be brought to court, one address remains: the duty of the state to protect.
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“Better questions. Stronger evidence. Greater protection.”
