Shale we Dance?
By Andreas Kuersten Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Five years ago, if one were to assert that by 2014 the United States would become the world’s top oil producer, the […]
By Andreas Kuersten Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Five years ago, if one were to assert that by 2014 the United States would become the world’s top oil producer, the […]
By Josh Dean Popular Mechanics On August 18, 2015, an otherwise unexceptional summer Tuesday, NASA issued a press release titled “There is No Asteroid Threatening Earth.” This was an alarming […]
By Krista Langlois Hakai For generations, Marshallese called their home Aelõñ Kein Ad—“these islands of ours.” A few ships passed by, but the islands’ culture evolved in relative isolation until […]
By Jeff Tollefson Nature Putting a price on the damage caused by the release of a tonne of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is an enormously complex exercise. Yet […]
By Robert Sapolsky Nautilus Somewhere in the middle of the night in a Central African rainforest, a chimpanzee gives birth. Soon after, as the sun rises, mother and newborn sit […]
By Ali Fakih & Walid Marrouch Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Since the eruption of the Syrian conflict in March 2011, the world came to face the largest wave of […]
By Claire Creffield Nautilus The awful truth is that the degree to which we are blamed for relatively minor wrongdoings often depends not on the wrongdoings themselves, but on chance […]