In Elbasan, there are no smells or sounds. It is an aseptic hybrid, half-city half-countryside. Goats graze in the contaminated fields. They also make no noise. By its mere presence, the Metalurgjiku silences everything that gravitates around it. The monumental...
Climate change is taking it's toll on Svalbard and making life even harder for it's secluded community.
World leaders at the G7 Summit in Biarritz last week focused on a wide range of issues, but the most controversial one might have been climate change. While matters such as Brexit, Iran’s nuclear program, and the US vs China...
The state of Tuvalu and Pacific Smaller Island States warned Australia about its actions for environmental protection on August 13th. This warning is very relevant in the context of sinking Pacific island states. Rising ocean levels threaten the security of...
As tourist attractions go, the Hitachi EH5000 is a big one. The mining machine is more than 24 feet tall. You can comfortably stand inside the circumference of its monstrous wheels. The hulking earth-mover, weighing roughly the same as 37...
The fortunes of Kasungu National Park’s elephants reflect the species’ suffering across Africa. A thousand gentle giants roamed the Malawian grassland in 1977; forty years later, just eighty remain. Spurred by the lucrative trade in illicit ivory, poaching is rampant....
The ongoing fires in the Amazon rainforest are unprecedented in scale and intensity. They are also so when it comes to international reaction to them. The fires are just turning from a sheer environmental issue to a political-economic one, threatening...
The UN predicts that global food security is currently in jeopardy, because of a high rise in global temperatures caused by climate change. Two million people Last year, more than 7,200 Central Americans from Honduras, Guatemala and El Savador began...
When the Wicked Witch of the West screeched, “I’m melting, I’m melting” in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, she inadvertently summed up what is happening today due to climate change. But the world held in thrall by flooding,...
China and Russia seem on their way to make the West’s most-feared nightmare a reality, which is to give rise to an alliance able to break down the American-centered unipolar system built in the aftermath of the World War II,...