​Throughout the past four months many areas of human existence have experienced profound transformations on a global scale. For those who work in the higher education sector, this time has been especially uneasy.

The novel coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed public health systems across the world. And although global efforts should be focused on containing the spread of the virus and providing proper medical treatment for those infected, we must not forget the medium-and long-term effects the outbreak will ...

Roughly 530 years ago the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, funded by Spain, traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and made contact with the indigenous people in what we now know as the Americas. One of the realities of those initial encounters is that they did not impose social distance, wear mas...

MAXUEJING/CHINADAILYForLatinAmerica,Chinaisanimportantfriendandeconomicdevelopmentpartner.Overthepast40years,Chinahasliftedmorethan800millionpeopleoutofpoverty.Incontrast,LatinAmericaremainsaregioncharacterizedbyinequalityandlowproductivitywhereoneoutofevery10peoplelacksaccesstobasichumannecessities...

新冠肺炎疫情发生以来，越来越多的人开始反思人与自然的关系，开始对看似抽象的生态文明及其重要性有了具体而直观的认识。复旦大学特聘教授、中国高校著名智库复旦发展研究院研究员、生态学家陈家宽的思考起步得更早些。长期以来，他以学者的专业眼光和人类史观审视着人与自然冲突所带来的生态与环境问题，从生态文明建设的...