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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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LA wildfires: The incarcerated firefighters battling blazes
When he left prison after serving close to a decade after an armored truck robbery, Anthony Pedro found himself sleeping in his car – which, he points out, was loaned to him and didn’t even…
Want to see climate change’s impact? Look at Honduras’ rare trees
Rich Howorth is Central America Programme Manager at Fauna & Flora The planet is heating at a rapid rate, and the effects are being felt in all corners of the…
Q&A:-LA wildfires: Veteran firefighter says lessons must be learnt
RICHMOND – With decades of experience in the wildland firefighting field, Kelly Martin travelled from Idaho as part of a task force responding to the devastating Los Angeles…
Greenland, Trump and the race for critical resources
BRUSSELS – Greenland is at the centre of a diplomatic storm after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he wants to make the Arctic island
In Data: Wet weather turns wild as climate change bites
LONDON – Last year was the hottest on…