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Now is the time for action if we hope to steer the future of Yemen in a positive direction.

The prolonged conflict in Yemen has created an urgent humanitarian and development crisis, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths, as well as significant damage to the country’s economy, physical infrastructure and education system. Now a new report details the devastating impact of the conflict and what is required to steer Yemen’s future in a positive direction. The University of Denver’s Frederick S. Pardee Center of International Futures at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to research the human and econ...

Fulweiler Co-Authors Paper Resulting from Pardee Center Workshop on Denitrification in Oyster Habitats Robinson (Wally) Fulweiler, a Professor of Biology and Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, co-authored a new paper exploring the opportunities for enhanced denitrification in oyster habitats. In the paper, published in the journal Estuaries and Coasts, the authors explain that policy interest in nitrogen removal from oyster habitats has so far focused mostly on biomass harvest, but that the water quality benefits of oyster-mediated denitrification (the microbial...

When you are on the side of global enlightenment, the standards of proof required for your assertions tend to be somewhat lower. This perhaps explains why Meghan Markle’s comments during an event called the Global Citizen’s Vax Live concert were so widely reported yet so little challenged by the usual army of self-appointed ‘fact-checkers’ who swoop on anything to do with Covid. She claimed that women ‘have been disproportionately affected by this pandemic’, citing a ‘surge in gender-based violence, the increased responsibility of unpaid care work and new obstacles which have r...

Afghan War Has Claimed 241,000 Lives, Report Finds SYNDICATED 3 hours ago A study released Friday estimates the two-decade-long war in Afghanistan has killed 241,000 people, including Americans, and cost the United States $2.26 trillion to date.   The Costs of War Project, housed at Brown University’s Watson Institute and Boston University’s Pardee Center, noted in its report that the financial cost included both Afghan operations and those in neighboring Pakistan.   President Joe Biden announced on...