The Nepalese earthquake was a product of natural causes. But the full death toll and slow recovery are not.
Climate change is set to trigger dangerously soaring temperatures this century, forcing many of humankind’s most vulnerable to migrate to survive. Yet the growing global obsession with border security will stifle their safe movement.
The popular outpouring in France, taken with the climate marches in September with which it would not at first be bracketed, may be a harbinger of change.
As the COP20 conference comes to a close in Lima, can the corporations whose ‘externalities’ foster climate change ever be brought to book?
The climate summit called today by the United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, will not bring the commitments needed to avert global chaos. Only popular mobilisation for climate justice can do that.
No industry, especially one as powerful as the fossil fuel industry, is going to allow governments or international bodies to tax or trade it out of existence.
Conditions in the Arctic in the 21st century come complete with territorial claims and lucrative opportunities. What role should NATO play in balancing the security implications for an increasingly accessed High North?
They arrive nameless and unnumbered by land or sea but ever-more unregulated migrants across the globe are falling victim to proliferating border-security regimes.
When we speak of WMD, we usually think of weapons - nuclear, biological, or chemical - that are delivered in a measurable moment in time. Consider climate change, then, a WMD on a particularly long fuse, already lit and there for any of us to see.
With energy supply in Europe a renewed concern, will the large reserves of natural gas in Cyprus become a peacemaker in the long-standing conflict, or become part of a larger game for regional stability?
The last two decades have seen a growing global appetite for peace but unless concerted, informed action is taken the next two could bring darker times
Environmental management consistently projects an image that the risks of climate change can be managed and the extraction of dirty energy resources should continue.
