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Jan 12, 2021
How We Misunderstand the Magnitude of Climate Risks – and Why That Contributes to Controversy
The Syrian civil war has raged for almost a decade now, and in the climate security community it can feel as if we’ve spent at least that long arguing about its causes. For every claim about the impact of...
Dec 15, 2020
Bringing the Natural World into America’s Middle East Policy: Averting a Crisis Foretold
Today, the Middle East faces a severe security concern that is crystalizing in plain view: the human impact of a rapidly changing natural world. The region, home to some of the world’s most parched lands and much of its...
Nov 12, 2020
How Iran is destroying its once thriving environmental movement
Iran once boasted one of the greenest governments. But persecution, paranoia, and war have sunk the Middle East’s most vital conservation programs.
Jul 16, 2020
Why the Nile Constitutes a New Kind of Water Dispute – and Why That’s Dangerous
Ever since workers first broke ground on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, international commenters have fixated on the Nile as a possible harbinger of future ‘water wars’ to come. And almost since then, water experts have pushed back...
Jul 7, 2020
The Authoritarian War on Environmental Journalism
In recent years, journalists in Egypt have fallen afoul of the state while covering almost every environmental issue imaginable. One reporter was beaten for reporting on toxic waste dumping along the Nile.1 Another was repeatedly harassed by state security for...
Jun 29, 2020
How Urban Design Can Make or Break Protests
Cities’ geography can aid, underscore or discourage a protest movement’s success