Climate Change

Without help for oil-producing countries, net zero by 2050 is a distant dream

2021-09-08

In the Middle East and north Africa, global warming is not a distant threat, but an already painful reality. Rising temperatures are exacerbating water shortages...

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Karbala’s unions and organizations issue a statement regarding electricity crisis

2021-07-04

The Unions and organizations of Karbala issued on Saturday a statement condemning the electricity fails in the government. The statement was issued on behalf of 48 parties...

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Listen to the Science

2020-10-22

There are also deepening social and economic crises. The pandemic has battered national economies, exacerbated many forms of inequality, and sown distrust and social unrest around the world...

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Climate-Friendly Cooling Can Slow Global Warming

2020-09-24

As global temperatures rise and demand for air conditioning and refrigeration soars, all countries must adopt common-sense initiatives to make cooling more efficient...

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Building a Post-Pandemic World Will Not Be Easy

2020-05-04

While both remind us that the Anthropocene epoch may jeopardize our continued existence, and that benign everyday behavior can result in catastrophic outcomes, such similarities must not obscure crucial differences.

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Capitalism’s Triple Crisis

2020-04-05

After the 2008 financial crisis, we learned the hard way what happens when governments flood the economy with unconditional liquidity, rather than laying the foundation for a sustainable and inclusive recovery. Now that an even more severe crisis is under

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Holistic Thinking for Global Threats

2020-03-18

Although there is a general consensus about the biggest threats facing humanity and the planet, the complex links between individual risk categories have so far received too little attention. Any realistic strategy to move toward a more sustainable future

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Greening Our Cities

2019-09-28

Cities are the worlds leading source of both economic growth and greenhouse-gas emissions, and those contributions will continue to grow as more of the world...

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Strengthening Land Rights Will Curb Migration

2019-09-22

What the US faces on its southern border is not a security problem, but a humanitarian crisis, and punishing attempts at deterrence cannot resolve it.

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Is education standing up to the task of climate action?

2019-09-19

A mid todays climate crisis, the global education community is faced with the reality that it has done too little too late.

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What would happen if all the world’s trees disappeared?

2019-09-15

As the Amazon fires continue to burn, Rachel Nuwer asks: how dependent are we on the survival of forests?

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Planetary Thinking

2019-08-29

As policymakers, academics, and activists prepare for next months United Nations climate summit in New York

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Can you cool a house without air conditioning?

2019-08-29

As summer temperatures rise, more buildings are installing energy hungry air conditioners a major contributor to climate change. But are there other ways to cool buildings down?

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A New Direction for the Planet’s Sake

2019-07-28

according to the sustainability organization Global Footprint Network, humanity will have used up the Earths resource budget for the entire year.

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The Middle East’s Authoritarians Have Come for Conservationists

2019-04-01

Environmental activists pushing for clean water, restrictions on poaching, and action on climate change have faced prison—or worse.

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Trump and the Truth About Climate Change

2017-07-04

Trump claims that is difficult to justify. On the contrary, the Paris accord is very good for America

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How Corruption Fuels Climate Change

2017-03-25

Last year marked the first time in millions of years that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million

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The Middle East is baking

2016-08-03

More than war even, climate change is making the region uninhabitable

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From the Front Lines of Climate Change

2016-05-11

Securing an agreement in Paris was just the first step on a long road towards protecting the global climate and the world’s most vulnerable countries

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The Clean Energy Revolution.. Fighting Climate Change With Innovation

2016-05-07

over 180 countries had submitted detailed plans to curb their greenhouse gas emissions.

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