On a brisk winter’s evening in Europe’s automotive heartland, a cyclist who had pushed for safer streets went out on his bike for a final time. Andreas Mandalka had documented dangerous driving and shoddy cycling infrastructure for years, measuring the margins at which cars zipped past him and posting videos of blatant violations. While quick…

The German government is keen to learn from Ukraine’s experience defending its electricity grid against attacks, after experiencing recent blackouts caused by sabotaged power lines in its capital. For more than four years, Russia has battered Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones – at times, much of the country, including its capital Kyiv, was…

In early April 2016, something mysterious happened: dead fish began washing up on the beaches of Vietnam’s Hà Tĩnh province. Not just a few – literal tons. And then dead fish began appearing elsewhere, all along Vietnam’s four central provinces.  This was an environmental crisis – but it was also an economic catastrophe. Citizens across…