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The world promised progress at the Glasgow climate conference. Now it has to turn those promises into reality. A former senior UN official describes what to watch for in the coming year.
Humanity’s biggest challenges are not technical, but social, economic, political and behavioural. Effective actions are still possible to stabilise the climate and the planet, but must be taken now.
Pressure is mounting on Congress to take action on Facebook. Our panel of experts offers their top priorities: user control of data, banking-like oversight and resources to close the digital divide.
The press releases sound promising, but the negotiations have a long way to go. Here’s what’s ahead at the midpoint of the COP26 climate talks.
What will the US$1.2 trillion infrastructure bill pay for? Here are some of the things it will help build, fix or remove.
How can nations prevent more pandemics like COVID-19? One priority is reducing the risk of diseases’ jumping from animals to humans. And that means understanding how human actions fuel that risk.
The UN Security Council resolution adopted to address the Yemeni crisis ended up constraining its efforts to bring peace.
President Joe Biden needed a Plan B, one that Congress could approve, to take to the UN climate conference. But his new strategy is unlikely to meet the country’s emissions reduction goals for 2030.
The world isn’t on track to avoid dangerous climate change, and this year’s climate conference, COP26, is crucial, a former senior UN official writes.
Konsumsi alkohol berkaitan dengan risiko kecelakaan dan penyakit jantung, hati, dan bahkan ganggua otak. Tetapi pelarangan penjualan bir, anggur, dan minuman keras tetap gagal dilakukan.
The AU’s choice of Olusegun Obasanjo as chief mediator raises even more questions about its partiality in Ethiopian conflict.
It’s the World Health Organization’s first update of global air quality guidelines since 2005. We know far more today about the serious risks these pollutants pose to human health.
North Korea has tended to ratchet up tensions when the U.S. is seen to be weak and when it feels it can yield greater concessions, a scholar explains.
Research questions the idea that getting commercial seeds and fertilisers to smallholder farmers will double yields and incomes.
Big Tech makes a lot of promises about protecting privacy, but the reality is that using the industry’s products is a matter of trust.
Two urban policy experts explain why taking down highways that have isolated low-income and minority neighborhoods for decades is an important part of the pending infrastructure bill.
Another wave of COVID-19 in Russia is undermining public health and threatens economic recovery. But widespread mistrust of institutions will stymie the country’s efforts to move past the pandemic.
Consuming alcohol makes accidents more likely and it can harm your heart, your liver and even change your brain. But making the sale of beer, wine and hard liquor illegal flopped.
Plus, new research from Indonesia on the relationship between cigarette advertising near schools and children smoking.
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Professor of Management, Tufts University
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Assistant Research Professor of Nutrition, Tufts University
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Professor of History, Tufts University
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Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Dean, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
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Assistant Professor of History, Tufts University
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Research Professor of Global Affairs, Tufts University
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Associate Research Professor of International Relations, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Visiting Scholar at the Fletcher School's Russia and Eurasia Program, Tufts University
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Tisch College Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Biology, Tufts University
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Senior Scientist Team Lead Nutrition Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Team Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Professor of Medicine, Tufts University
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Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice in Public Diplomacy, Tufts University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
