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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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Why is the weather becoming more extreme?
LONDON – The worst floods in central Europe in at least two decades, a monstrous hurricane that killed more than 160 people in the U.S., two days of heavy rain claiming nearly 200 lives in Nepal – just some of extreme…
Use it or lose it: Biden races to spend climate cash
RICHMOND – Fearing that Donald Trump could kill off green initiatives if he wins the U.S. election, President Joe Biden’s administration is racing to spend the tens of billions of dollars…
'Too much humiliation': Why Samsung workers are striking in India
Hundreds of workers at Samsung Electronics – the world’s top maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips – have been striking in southern India, demanding better…
Unheard, unseen, off air: Afghan law could erase women in media
Afghanistan’s draconian new “morality law”, which bans women from speaking in public, could force them out of the media and silence those offering hope to girls already shut out of…
Gold prices and poverty fuel illegal mining in Peru's Amazon
The Nanay River meanders through Peru’s Amazon jungle supplying water to Iquitos city’s half a million inhabitants. But there are growing concerns about the quality of this…
