Tag: United Nations
Which country is best to live in? Our calculations say it’s...
Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Sergei Scherbov, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and Simone Ghislandi, Bocconi...
The urgency of curbing pollution from ships, explained
James J. Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology and James J Corbett, University of Delaware
The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that regulates global...
I visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh...
Sabrina Karim, Cornell University
Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh from Myanmar since September 2017. The Bangladeshi government’s plan to start repatriating them...
Surviving crisis: UN campaign to fight corruption in Guatemala has global...
John Ciorciari, University of Michigan
Massive protests recently broke out in Guatemala as the nation teetered on the edge of a major political crisis.
Guatemalans took...
The history of the persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya
Engy Abdelkader, Rutgers University
Some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims, a religious and ethnic minority community in Myanmar, have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since August this year....
Why Trump’s tirades are losing their potency
Elizabeth C. Tippett, University of Oregon
President Trump on September 19 gave his inaugural speech to the United Nations General Assembly, where he characterized North...
Are State Department cuts a major setback for genocide prevention?
Nadia Rubaii, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Max Pensky, Binghamton University, State University of New York
There are many indications that human...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
