The Different Levels of Geopolitics of the Arctic
By Andreas Østhagen Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Few areas have been the source of as much speculation, hype, and overgeneralization as the Arctic region at the start of the […]
Tag Archives: Global Warming
How Federal Disaster Money Favors The Rich
By Rebecca Hersher & Robert Benincasa NPR If they had known, they never would have bought the house on Bayou Glen Road. Sure, it was a beautiful lot, tucked in […]
Mining Asteroids for a Better Earth
By Philip Metzger Aeon Mining asteroids might seem like the stuff of science fiction, but there are companies and a few governments already working hard to make it real. This should not […]
If Renewables Can’t Save the Planet, Uranium Might
By Michael Shellenberger Foreign Affairs Around the world, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy appears to finally be under way. Renewables were first promoted in the 1960s […]
Nuclear Power is Integral to Meeting Clean Energy Goals
By Daniel McGlynn Phys.org Early this year, Rachel Slaybaugh attended a campus mixer on technological innovation. When she introduced herself as a professor of nuclear engineering, other attendees would pause […]
The China-India Water Wars
By Jin H. Pak Parameters Over the past decade, numerous analysts and scholars have speculated about the likelihood of India and China going to war over water. Some maintain a […]
Safely Reviving Nuclear Energy
By Richard Martin MIT Technology Review In February I flew through the interior of a machine that could represent the future of nuclear power. I was on a virtual-reality tour […]
