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The Middle East has already seen a 1.5°C increase in average temperatures since the 1990s, but the worst is not over — in the coming decades, the region is expected to experience extended heatwaves and temperature spikes that threaten human survival unless sufficient climate adaptation strategies are implemented. This would be difficult in the best of circumstances, but in places like Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, climate risks will be further compounded by the impact of conflict. No one sector can...

For the past two decades, scholars and policymakers have examined the phenomenon of China’s missing females and corresponding numbers of

Each week, I’ll recap the latest episode of The President’s Inbox and provide resources to learn more about the topic. 

In September and October’s top post, Susie Jolly captures how sex education is deeply enmeshed in the power dynamics and institutional norms

There’s a scene near the climax of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express when Hercule Poirot starts to plot out the possible murderers.

On a crisp autumn morning, the Yellowhill Community Center in Western North Carolina buzzed with excitement as more than 120 Cherokees and their allie...

The looming 27th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) of the UNFCCC in Egypt in November 2022 brings with it a moment of truth for many

The Chao Phraya starts at the confluence of the Ping and Nan rivers, which meet in Nakhon Sawan province in the heart of Thailand. Although the river’...

What is going on over at the UN Population Division? In response to The New Security Beat’s post on the UN’s sub-Saharan projections, Ed Carr of

As Europe faces cataclysms that will redraw the face of the old continent forever, the U.S. cannot hope to escape the changes either.