Tag: United Nations
Why we’ll miss George H.W. Bush, America’s last foreign policy president
James Goldgeier, American University School of International Service
There are many reasons to miss George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States. A...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for...
Why companies should help pay for the biodiversity that’s good for their bottom lin
Joanne Burgess, Colorado State University and Edward Barbier, Colorado State University
In...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Paving paradise: Dismantling the US Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife,...
Mariah Meek, Michigan State University and Travis Belote, Montana State University
Pause for a moment and listen. What do...
