A recently published Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has highlighted how thousands of Indigenous people and other rural communities have had their lives ‘devastated’ by oil palm plantations in Indonesia – the world’s largest palm oil exporter. Indonesia is home...
The Vietnam War, or the Second Indochina War, has been argued to be a watershed in United States history – it was the first war lost by the United States. The first official US combat troops arrived in Vietnam in...
A recently published article at JSTOR Daily asked: “Is militarizing rangers really the best way to combat illegal wildlife hunting?” A rise in environmental security, or what has been termed a “war for biodiversity” or “green militarization”, particularly in the context...
As William Davies wrote in a 2016 New York Times Op-Ed, “Facts hold a sacred place in Western liberal democracies”. It is certainly the case and an often-repeated truism that a well-functioning democracy requires a well-informed public. However, the combination...
Uranium is a naturally occurring, radioactive heavy metal found in the earth’s crust. It is composed of three isotopes: U-234, U-235, and U-238. Depleted uranium, or DU, is created as a by-product of the uranium enrichment process and is about...
The civil war in South Sudan between government forces and opposition forces broke out in December 2013 and is still ongoing. Almost 400,000 people have been estimated to likely have been killed, according to one report, with around half of...
A report by Human Rights Watch and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released on 4 April of this year sets out a devastating picture of the humanitarian emergency presently occurring in Venezuela. The report is based on 156 interviews with...
Tropical cyclone Idai, which made landfall on Beira, Mozambique on March 14 of this year, with heavy rains continuing until March 20 – was one of the worst tropical cyclones on record affecting the Southern Hemisphere. The storm caused devastating...
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