A haiku looks like the easiest poem to write. Three short lines, a few syllables, finished before your tea goes cold. That apparent simplicity is exactly why this format works so well for writing ...

In many languages and countries around the world today, millions of people are writing haiku. But what is a haiku, really? How did it develop from its obscure origins in Japan to have a global reach?

This roundup of The Conversation’s environment coverage was first published in our award-winning weekly climate action newsletter, Imagine. At school, I was told by my teachers I wasn’t allowed to ...