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Context is the Foundation’s award-winning media platform, providing news and analysis around three of the most significant and interconnected issues of our time: climate change, the effects of technology on society, and socio-economic inequality. Our human-centered journalism is delivered across a range of formats — from in-depth stories to videos and podcasts to newsletters.
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As Diwali nears, how can India harness tech for clean air?
Dr R Subramanian is the sector head of air quality at the Bengaluru-based Center for Study of Science, Technology & Policy (CSTEP) Diwali season in India…
In Egypt, prospect of Trump win raises fears over school funding
In Egypt, education officials are watching the U.S. election with concern, worried that if Republican Donald Trump wins he could reduce U.S. financial support for schools catering to…
U.S. election puts millions on the line for Amazon rainforest fund
LOS ANGELES – For more than a month, a team of some 270 firefighters has been battling a wall of flames consuming two Indigenous territories on the edge of Brazil’s Amazon…
Workers at Europe's dirtiest power plant wary of life after coal
In the industrial city of Bełchatów, the logo of Polish energy giant PGE is plastered on buildings, signposts and the football kits of children dashing to after-school…
The energy capital powering India and poisoning its residents
Social worker Manonit Ravi says it has been “living hell” enduring the pollution in his village in India’s Singrauli region, where residents regularly battle the effects of toxic ash from…