Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

The Climate Science Breakthrough is an urgent and ongoing project to help climate science break through to many more people - and unlock action.

One disaster can create the conditions for the next.

A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.

The Scottish weather is no longer a joke as visitors head north from the rest of the UK to cool down.

‘Emma’ the Rotherham chatbot has 17 languages says AI firm – but health watchdog says system struggling with local ‘twangs’

There are many tech irritants that are a scourge of modern life, yet we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them ... until now

This term describes dramatic swings between different kinds of extreme weather.

Whether the future offers the arrival of environmental catastrophe or the worsening of an already existing climate crisis, articulations of (post)apocalyptic en...

Rhys Ifans, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Mark Lewis Jones among actors voicing characters from 1977 blockbuster

When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Choose a year, and we'll show you the words that come from that date.

Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.

Why AI companies are so fond of the prefix ‘co’.

Should we embrace air conditioning despite its costs and consequences, and how much should we spend on adapting homes versus cutting carbon?

"figure of speech in which a part is taken for the whole of a thing or vice versa," late… See origin and meaning of synecdoche.

Exclusive: Outdoor workers losing up to 9% of income as weather becomes ‘poverty multiplier’, research says

The term was introduced in April by the weather agency to describe days when temperatures reach 40C.

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study finds

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s media, from Octonauts to Disney to Bluey, and they investi…

Mexico sues Google over renaming the Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’, raising concerns about digital sovereignty and cartographic power

The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.

The politics of motherhood and US mums on the sharp end of the law.

Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...

As the tide of AI ‘slop’ rises, it’s more important than ever to hone your reality-checking skills.

One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditional needlework to embellish portraits of themselves

The Oxford English Dictionary has added new untranslatable words from South East Asia.

It’s all about what they want you to do.

British Academy review calls for major policy changes to reverse rise in deprivation and ill health

With contemporary English including more than eighty thousand terms of French origin, Georges Clemenceau might have had...

The imagery of climate change is oversimplifying climate vulnerability.

Britain in the 90s seemed to see homosexuality as something shameful. My father told the world how proud he was of me

Curator of Design Museum show says ‘human-centric’ approach to design needs overhaul amid climate crisis

Our Writer in Residence Patrice Lawrence shares a few books to help adults empathise with children facing challenging home circumstances