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In 2020, the world experienced the convergence of the global water and climate change crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, and economic recession. The compounded emergencies hit even well-prepared countries hard. For the more than 50 percent of the world’s population that relies on transboundary freshwater sources for their drinking water, the renewed urgency for access to water for sanitation raised additional challenges. Effectively responding to the crises demanded an elevated degree of communic...

The Top 5 of March 2021 Jordan is facing a deepening, multi-faceted freshwater crisis and it’ll take aggressive action by the country and its international partners to gain a foothold on its water future. In this month’s top post, Steven M. Gorelick, Jim Yoon, Christian Klassert feature their recently published framework that assesses the key factors playing a role in exacerbating Jordan’s limited natural water availability and Jordan’s water security outlook.⁠ The Wilson Center’s C...

A Chinese-led team managed to grow human cells within monkey embryos for 20 days before terminating the experiment for ethical reasons.

 E-Mail A key portion of MITs campus overlaps with Kendall Square, the bustling area in East Cambridge where students, residents, and tech employees scurry around in between classes, meetings, and meals. Where are they all going? Is there a way to make sense of this daily flurry of foot traffic? In fact, there is: MIT Associate Professor Andres Sevtsuk has made Kendall Square the basis of a newly published model of pedestrian movement that could help planners and developers better grasp the fl...

Many recurring problems in natural resource management are the result of missing a key point: ecosystems and human systems are inextricably linked and dynamic, changing constantly. We are part of a socio-ecological system, not external to it, as many previously thought. In the “age of man” – the Anthropocene, as some scientists call the current era – cross-sectoral collaboration is needed to make substantial headway in tackling complex challenges, such as natural resource-related confli...

Climate Change and Terrorism This article is adapted from an article previously published by the journal,Perspectives on Terrorism. Climate change is a defining global issue of our time. In a recent address to the UN Security Council, John Kerry, the U.S. presidential envoy for climate, remarked that climate change is “the challenge of all of our generations.” An important dimension of the challenge presented by climate change concerns its implications for state and human security. Over the...

This article originally appeared on Asia Dispatches. Southeast Asia is at the center of the two major geopolitical challenges of the 21st century:

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Global Building and Construction Industry Report 2021: Technology Advances Enabling Sustainability in the Market - ResearchAndMarkets.com April 13, 2021 GMT DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 13, 2021-- This research service titled ‘Technology Advances Enabling Sustainability in Building & Construction Industry’ focuses on identifying and analysing technologies that can improve sustainability of the buil...

A Land Like No Other: Afghanistan’s Post-Conflict Ecotourism Potential Stunning cobalt-blue lakes with natural travertine dams in Band-e-Amir, the pristine, soaring Pamir Mountains, through which some of the world’s last snow leopards prowl—far from the simplistic, violent, and drab images preferred by the media, Afghanistan is a beautiful and multifaceted nation. Lonely Planet once described Afghanistan as a “vastly appealing country.” Having married into an Afghan family many years ...

A City Designed For Women is a City Designed For All | Opinion Cat Woods , freelance writer On 4/12/21 at 1:00 PM EDT Is your city designed for women? Theres every likelihood that unless you work in urban planning, or youre a woman who traverses the streets via foot or bike, this isnt a question youve considered. Much of the landscape of a city is taken for granted—whether its the width of footpaths, the height of traffic lights, the presence of CCTV, visible artwork or gre...