Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A Special Committee of the United Nations Office of the High Commission on Human Rights has issued a new report […]
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As US-EU Trade Tensions Rise, Conflicting Carbon Tariffs could undermine Climate Efforts
By Noah Kaufman, Columbia University;Chris Bataille, Columbia University; Gautam Jain, Columbia University; and Sagatom Saha, Columbia University | – Rising trade tensions between the U.S. […]
Israel’s Netanyahu Crumbles before Supreme Court demand he Fire Corrupt Minister, as AG considers Banning Netanyahu Too
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) Carrie Keller-Lynn at The Times of Israel reports that at Sunday’s Cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was forced to fire […]
Netanyahu’s claim of Jewish exclusivity in Palestine must be challenged
By Iqbal Jassat | – ( Middle East Monitor ) – The defiant declaration by Benjamin Netanyahu that he is going to press ahead and […]
Why gas stoves matter to the climate – and the gas industry: Keeping them means homes will use gas for heating too
By Daniel Cohan, Rice University | Gas stoves are a leading source of hazardous indoor air pollution, but they emit only a tiny share of […]
Climate Change will Supersede Everything: The Pentagon’s Massive Intelligence Failure on China
( Tomdispatch.com) – Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of […]
Is Israel becoming a Middle East Dictatorship under Netanyahu? 110,000 Rally against Gov’t
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some 110,000 Israelis protested Saturday night at two big rallies in Tel Aviv. So reports Al Jazeera. The larger of […]
Economic Growth is killing the Planet. How do we Engineer an Alternative?
( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report called The Limits to Growth that laid out the damage […]
Desalination could give the Middle East Water without damaging marine Life – but it must be managed carefully
By Jonathan Chenoweth, University of Surrey and Raya A. Al-Masr, University of Surrey | – (The Conversation) – More than 2 billion people live in […]
Solar Plant northwest of Flagstaff expected to Avoid 1 billion pounds of CO2 Emissions each Year
By Sydnee Wilson ( Cronkite News ) – FLAGSTAFF – Salt River Project has partnered with Clenera, a private renewable energy company, to bring Arizona […]