How Afghanistan is quickly becoming a resource conflict
Why don’t people who don’t know I exist (and wouldn’t care if they did) follow advice that they had no way of knowing I’d even written? Back in the winter/spring… Read more »
Tag: Natural Resources
The restoration of wetlands is a major victory for the Great Lakes
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Cross posted from Drink Local. Drink Tap., Inc. Given the spate of bad news for the Great Lakes recently – from declining lake levels to toxic algal blooms to microplastic… Read more »
How oil will make Syria’s civil war even deadlier
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The New York Times published an article yesterday that likely raised some eyebrows. Islamist rebels and extremist groups have seized control of most of Syria’s oil and gas resources, a rare generator… Read more »
Africa’s Great Lakes were central to human evolution
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Cross-posted from Drink Local. Drink Tap., Inc. If you’ve ever felt inexplicably drawn to Lake Erie or any of the other Great Lakes, you’re not alone. In fact, that attraction… Read more »
Bringing Natural Resources to the Table: ELI, UNEP Launch New Environmental Peacebuilding Platform
I have a guest post up at the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat on environmental peacebuilding and the work that the UN Environment Programme and the Environmental Law Institute are… Read more »
There’s no such thing as a natural disaster
As we all know, Super Typhoon Haiyan devastated the Philippines over the weekend. At its peak, Haiyan was perhaps the strongest tropical storm ever recorded at landfall, packing sustained winds… Read more »
Climate change will reduce labor productivity, increase inequality
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Last week, an article came out in the journal Nature Climate Change (Climate Central also has a good summary of it) that discussed the likely effects of climate change on… Read more »