Education and Skills
Which countries are best at English as a second language?
English is the world’s most widely spoken language but is unusual in the fact that the vast majority of speakers are not ‘native’.
Keith Breene is a Senior Writer at Formative Content, and an experienced national journalist.
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Sustainable Development
和孩子一起“长大”的衣服
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Wellbeing and Mental Health
失败的婚姻危害如烟酒
我们早就知道，婚姻对人的健康有益；通常来讲，已婚人士生活更健康，寿命也会更长。
Urban Transformation
哪些城市让你挣得更多
洛杉矶因很多元素而闻名：阳光、迷人的沙滩，当然也少不了在电影中屡次崭露头角的美丽风光。
Geographies in Depth
中国领先世界的七项“超级工程”
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Geographies in Depth
7 Chinese superstructures that leave the rest of the world in the shade
China’s economic power has grown at breakneck speed. Its ever-strengthening political might reflects that fact, as does an increase in its military muscle. But there are other, less obvio...
什么是网络中立？和我又有什么关系？
虽说车辆交通或数字交通可能都不会中断，但美国今天确实正上演着一场大规模的抗议活动。与以往不同，此次抗议活动由多家美国规模巨大的公司发起。
Nature and Biodiversity
The Amazon could hold the key to solving our biggest challenges
Watch 200,000 ants stream past without a single collision or moment of congestion and you see why researchers developing driverless cars wanted to learn from these insects.
Global Cooperation
These countries have the most positive influence on the world
The idea of the United States as a “shining city upon a hill” is most closely associated with President Ronald Reagan but has been used by politicians since the country’s earliest days.
Global Cooperation
Millennials are rapidly losing interest in democracy
Not long ago, liberal democracy was regarded by many as not just the best form of government, but the inevitable form of government. At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama famously ...
Health and Healthcare Systems
7 deadly diseases the world has (almost) eradicated
It’s easy to feel pessimistic about the health of the world’s population. Growing antibiotic resistance, the dramatic rise in obesity related diseases and problems associated with an agei...
Climate Action
This tiny pacific island is officially the most plastic-polluted place on earth
An uninhabited Pacific island thousands of miles away from the nearest city has been named as the most plastic-polluted place on earth. The beaches of the World Heritage-listed Henderson ...
Climate Action
One chart that shows just how skewed global emissions are
Global warming is the ultimate international problem. It doesn’t matter where you live, climate change is the most serious threat the planet faces today.
Climate Action
The Arctic is now expected to be ice-free by 2040
The last piece of summer sea-ice in the Arctic is expected to melt away in just 23 years, three decades earlier than previously expected.
Geographies in Depth
5 things to look for as Presidents Trump and Xi meet for the first time
It is, perhaps, the most pivotal moment in US/China relations since the so-called “ping-pong diplomacy” of the early 1970s.