Climate change can manifest in different ways: stronger tropical droughts, extreme droughts, warmer climates and highly unpredictable rainfall patterns. All these endanger the availability of food, which in turn could increase ...
Environment
Nov 29, 2022
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The world is falling miserably short of reducing carbon emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, a 2015 treaty to keep global warming well below 2℃.
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2022
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Blast craters, denuded landscapes and burning oil wells. When we think of the relation between war and the landscape, we think of such destructive acts and toxic legacies. Through this lens, nature and the landscape are often ...
Political science
May 12, 2022
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The latest UN report on the potential impacts of climate change gives a grim verdict, with some effects now deemed unavoidable. But there are also lessons on disasters and violent conflicts which could help save lives and ...
Environment
Mar 1, 2022
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The Sahel extends south of the Sahara from Senegal in the west to Ethiopia in the east of Africa. Vast areas of the formerly fertile region are now virtually uncultivated. Reasons are droughts, poor agricultural cultivation ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2021
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Water diplomacy means that water must be diplomatised and diplomacy watered.
Environment
Sep 20, 2021
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Humanitarian situations, especially protracted violent conflicts, are a serious barrier to accessing education. This is why, for 30 years, aid practitioners have been advocating for "Education in Emergencies". The idea is ...
Social Sciences
May 17, 2021
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New research from the University of Notre Dame is shedding light on the unexpected effects climate change could have on regional instability and violent conflict.
Environment
Feb 3, 2020
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A lack of violence as the American frontier became homesteaded can inform how today's society reacts to privately enforced property rights, according to a study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Social Sciences
Aug 19, 2019
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The Madre de Dios rainforest in southeastern Peru is one of the biodiversity capitals of the world, with more species of plants and animals than almost anywhere else on the planet. This giant patch of Amazon rainforest is ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2019
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