Last Tuesday, an undernourished polar bear was sighted in the Russian industrial city of Norilsk for the first time in forty years. It was believed that the polar bear had trekked hundreds of m...

  Since 2017, armed conflict has been rampant in the Central African country of Cameroon. It began in 2016 when those living in the English-speaking region of the country began peacefully protest...

  Data released today from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) annual Global Trends report revealed a staggering 70.8 million people were displaced worldwide by the end o...

  It’s no secret that the Arctic region has been suffering from the effects of global warming for quite some time – but nothing has been quite as extreme as last Thursday when up to 40% o...

  Gone are the days when being a teenager was synonymous with being uninformed or uncaring. When all that was on a teenager’s mind were the latest fashion trends or the recent scandalous gossip...

  Goal four of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for “inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” Belong ...

  Greenpeace has put two more protesters on a Transocean rig operated by BP just hours after the police removed other activists, some of whom have already appeared in court, who have in the last ...

  On May 31st, Netflix released Ava Duvernay’s When They See Us, a four-part miniseries following the case of the infamous 1989 Central Park Jogger Case. The story follows five teenage boys: An...

  Two years after the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, in which 72 people died, tens of thousands of residents are still living in unsafe homes and more than 200 high rise buildings have exactly the...

  On June 3rd, a peaceful sit-in taking place in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum was brutally dispersed after paramilitary forces killed and wounded hundreds of protestors. The sit-in, which had...

  New research has found that sitting calmly in woods, on the beach or even in parks has important physical and mental health benefits. The research, which was published in the journal Scientific...

  Five out of nine judges in Ecuador’s top court voted in favour of allowing two gay couples to get married after they sued the state following the denial of their request to be married by Ecua...

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) is meeting on Friday to decide whether to declare the Ebola outbreak in central Africa “a public health emergency of international concern” as the virus ...

  Theresa May puts down legislation for the UK to cut its carbon emissions to net zero by 2050, making Britain the first major economy in the world to do so. In what is widely seen as a move to c...

See the video below to find out more about the courses and what they offer: Bristol University offers flexible online courses in Sustainable Futures and Global Citizenship, Belong went to down to Bris...

  Hundreds of Indian villages lie empty and crops are dying as one of the worst droughts in decades and an unprecedented heat wave has forced families to abandon their homes in search of water. I...

  The power company is to undertake the most ambitious battery power project in Europe, which will be a huge step in providing continuous power from wind and solar energy. The massive battery wil...

  A high court in Botswana has kicked out two colonial-era laws and effectively legalised homosexual relationships ruling that the laws were discriminatory, unconstitutional and against the publi...

Plant extinctions are four times higher than previously thought, according to scientists who have just published the first-ever global study on the issue. A shocking 571 species have disappeared since...

  Belong’s Edward Cowley, who has been to the Chernobyl nuclear power station and has made a documentary about the consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster, examines Craig Mazin’s Chernobyl HBO...

  On April 11th, 2019, victory spread across Sudan as large-scale pro-democracy protests led to the removal of a dictator and President Omar al-Bashir who had ruled over the country for close to ...

  Dissident and environmental activist, Nguyen Ngoc Anh, has been sentenced to six years in prison for Facebook posts, which allegedly urged people to take part in peaceful protests and criticise...

  Plans to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 could cost the UK economy £1 trillion, the chancellor Philip Hammond warned Prime Minister Theresa May in a letter. Adopting a net zero tar...

  As Trooping the Colour, the traditional ceremony performed every year in front of the queen, gets underway on Saturday, Belong looks at the contribution made to the British armed service both n...

  The Brazilian Amazon saw the highest level of deforestation in May since the current monitoring period began in 1992, amid concerns that far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is weakening environm...

  Tanzania has followed neighbouring Kenya and has banned the use of plastic bags. On paper, punishments for breaking the ban are strict, but a mentality of littering and poor waste management ma...

  Air Pollution is the theme for this year’s, World Environment Day, which will be hosted by Hangzhou in southwestern China. Since it was conceived by the UN in 1974, World Environment Day on 5...

  Outgoing British Prime Minister, Theresa May will “robustly challenge” Donald Trump on his stance on climate change, during his visit to the UK, as the two countries pursue very different p...

  The future is here, yet many are unwilling to open their door to it. Yes, that’s right: 5G has arrived. Yesterday mark the first rollout of the next generation 5G mobile network in the United...

  Britain needs an urgent rethink on how it manages its rural and agricultural land according to Rewilding Britain, a charity that is proposing to restore a quarter of the UK’s landmass back to...