Climate change will threaten the world’s food supply in coming decades, damaging production while demand is expected to soar, scientists say. According to the New York...
A joint investigation by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International has condemned the use of drones in US attacks on Pakistan and Yemen, claiming it amounts...
A new report into Ministry of Defence litigations has been condemned by some lawyers, who claim that the findings and recommendations are unfair. The report, The Fog of Law, was...
Creativity, entrepreneurship and ingenuity helped the UK lead the Industrial Revolution. But it is now in a dangerous position where it is afraid of making mistakes...
Campaigners who were convicted of criminal damage after breaking through a fence at an RAF base in Lincolnshire have said they wanted to “put drones on...
Resource scarcity affected partly by global warming may be an underlying cause of conflicts such as the Syrian civil war, say researchers from Anglia Ruskin University....
Sixty-eight years ago today, one of the most catastrophic and memorable acts of warfare occurred in Japan. To many looking in from the outside, the Hiroshima...
Oxfam and Saferworld have called for stricter regulation within the global arms trade, “as conflicts continue to destroy lives worldwide”. Oxfam’s head of arms control Anna...
Government ministers were angered in 1997 after the Princess called for an international ban on landmines after seeing victims in Angola. With news that a Yorkshire...
Pseudoscientists, especially those who have books or films to sell, have long declared the end of the current Mayan long count calendar, December 21 2012, as...
While none of the major gun manufacturers are British, thousands are killed every year by military equipment manufactured in, and sold by, the UK. Ever since...
United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has highlighted peace and security as a “critical ‘fourth dimension’ for sustainable development” in his message for the International Day for...
With six days to go until our crowdfunding campaign ends, we’re exploring tenuous numerical links to the number of days left. This one isn’t overly tenuous,...