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This Weekend's News: Another Side of the Same Stories
Crop failures during the 2005 food shortage in Niger, as compared to 2004. This year's crisis is predicted to be worse. Photo: NASA-Earth Observatory For the past few weeks, ...
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Climate Risks: Lessons from 2010’s Extreme Weather
This post was originally published yesterday by the Climate Compass blog at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change where Dr. Jay Gulledge is Senior Scientist and Director of ...
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This Weekend's News: Challenges and Opportunities for US Soft Power
Two articles this weekend especially caught my attention. The first, an article in The New York Times, starts to draw the climate connections between the extreme weather even...
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This Weekend’s News: Wow, There Sure Was a Lot of Bad News This Weekend
This is shaping up to be a summer marked by its extensive natural disasters around the world. In addition to the heat waves, projections hinting at a bad hurricane season in t...
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Could Security Concerns Change Global Attitudes with Countries Straddling the Climate Divide?
Could Russian President Medvedev’s recent statement on climate change be the beginning of a change in attitude among skeptical world leaders (and others in their country) that...
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Transboundary Rivers and U.S. National Security
While the historical record shows that no states have ever fought a war over transboundary water resources, such resources have long served as focal points for potential confl...
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Read This Now: The QDR in Perspective
Last week, the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Review Panel released its final report on the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). The five-month review of the QDR was...
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This Weekend’s News: Flooding in Pakistan Tests Tempers
Severe flooding throughout Pakistan is exacerbating anti-government anger in many parts of the country, including in Pakistan’s northwest region, particularly the Swat Valley ...
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What an Energy-Hogging China May Mean for the U.S. and Global Politics
This post, written by CNAS colleague Matt Acocella, was originally posted on Tom Ricks's The Best Defense blog. Thanks Matt! The International Energy Agency announced last wee...
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Is China Pursuing a Monroe Doctrine for Energy Resources in the South China Sea?
Following up on a story we highlighted here on the blog last Friday, China has issued a stern warning to the United States not to meddle in a longstanding dispute between Chin...
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Midnight Train to Cleveland
Last week I rode Amtrak back home to Ohio for the first time, inspiring me to think a bit more about this means of displacing individual vehicle transport (and commensurate pe...
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Meddling with Metals and Resources in Iraq and Afghanistan: How will this End?
I went to an event last Wednesday morning at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) that included a panel with James Yeager, former advisor to Afghanistan Ministry of Mines, Graci...
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This Weekend’s News: From Heatwaves to Proverbs to Transnational Crime
There was plenty of news this weekend after BP announced that the cap that was put in place on Thursday to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf appeared to be holding steady. On...
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5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Charles Emmerson
Following on yesterday’s review of his recent book, The Future History of the Arctic, let’s now turn to a chat with Charles Emmerson. Alex was great enough track him down for ...
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This Weekend's News: Much About H20
When water is mentioned in several articles throughout the week, it is noticeable. It played major and minor roles in two different New York Times pieces yesterday, with a Bos...
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Cancun Week: BASIC Meetings
The Copenhagen Conference, which took place last December, was billed as the conference where participant countries would nail down a legally binding agreement to succeed the ...
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Cancun Week: Can Congress Pass Climate Change Legislation?
Last week, President Obama met with a bi-partisan group of Senators about new legislation to address climate change and create a new energy policy for the United States, a mee...
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Cancun Week: UN Politics
Welcome to Cancun week! My next three posts will cover climate change-related current events, covering some of the most important themes of the Copenhagen Conference and specu...
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This Weekend’s News: Investing in Iraq and Afghanistan
There have been a lot of developments around reconstruction and foreign investments in Afghanistan and Iraq recently, including several reports from The Washington Post and Th...
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This Weekend’s News: Has the Ocean Lost its Way?
Beyond the coverage and commentary on General McCrystal’s dismissal, this weekend’s news had a heavy focus on the ocean’s seafood stocks. Yep, that’s right. Both the Times and...