Decoder: What happens if you buy a carbon credit?

I am interested in carbon credits — permits that offset greenhouse emissions. So I bought a tonne of carbon. Here's what I learned. (Photo courtesy of Cory Willis of Willis Farms, Inc. in Tennessee, United States) Anyone with a credit card and the inclination...

Decoder: Love of economic growth can hinder climate action

by Jeremy Lovell | 28 Mar 2022 | Climate change, Decoders, Economy, Environment

Efforts to combat global warming can clash with our addiction to economic growth. Even the global benchmark of success, GDP, is flawed. (Photo courtesy of the Bennett Institute of Public Policy/@kazuend) Mixed and often contradictory messages are turning the task of..

Decoder: With war in Ukraine, spectre of nuclear war returns

by Harvey Morris | 22 Mar 2022 | Conflict, Decoders, Educators' Catalog, Ukraine, World

Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia's invasion of Ukraine has revived dormant fears of a catastrophic nuclear war. Russian missile launchers, capable of firing nuclear warheads, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 9 May 2016 (AP...

Decoder: What was the Soviet Union? Why does Putin miss it?

by Julian Nundy | 7 Mar 2022 | Asia, Conflict, Decoders, Educators' Catalog, Europe, Future of Democracy, Human Rights, Politics, Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the fall of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe. What was the USSR, and what does Putin really want? Russian communist party supporters commemorate the death anniversary of the founder of the former Soviet Union, Vladimir...

Decoder: Why Russia & Ukraine are so tightly linked

by Natasha Comeau | 14 Feb 2022 | Conflict, Decoders, Europe, Ukraine

Neighbors Russia and Ukraine share a common history that looms over Europe's deepest security crisis in decades. In this image released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on 2 February 2022, Russian soldiers attend military training at the Yurginsky...