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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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Visa fears for international students as U.S vote nears
LOS ANGELES/LAGOS – Four years ago, Nigerian Ernestino Amaechi got a visa to study business in the U.S. but now he worries he might be forced to go back home and be separated from his two…
Hilda Heine, Patrick Verkooijen: Small islands risk extinction
Hilda Heine is President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Professor Patrick Verkooijen is CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation. The 39 Small Island Developing…
India to Italy: a trail of broken dreams, loss and abuse
CHAND NAWAN, India/AGRO PONTINO, Italy – Jasveer Kaur last saw her son pre-pandemic. Now the Punjabi mother of three has only memories, faded photos – and stories of a freak farm accident that…
Indigenous women are on nature's front lines but get little funding
CALI, Colombia – Women are often on the frontlines of protecting Latin America’s
Why is China upping coal power despite green energy boom?
The world has pledged to wean itself off ‘dirty’ coal to slow the pace of climate change, so why is China – already the world’s top producer and consumer of coal – upping its output? China…