Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on resources and on new and progressive ways of managing those resources. Resources relate to land, water, air, sunlight, minerals and metals, fossil fuels, and humans interaction with them.
The latest UN climate summit, Cop31, will get underway in Antalya, Turkey, on November 9. One of its key objectives is to…
The world is getting hotter, water is becoming more scarceāwhat will we eat when the earth is dry, hot, and depleted of…
Israeli squatters in the Palestinian West Bank have intensified their violence towards the Palestinians during the current annual olive harvest season. The…
The Fatal Rain of Wadi Saleh In mid-September 2026, when rain finally touched the parched soil of Jebel Issa in North Darfurās…
Iowa contains only 4.5% of the land and contributes 5.9% of the water to the Mississippi River watershed. Yet it contributes to 29%…
Climate change has turned vicious; itās on the nightly news way too much to ignore, whether a massive avalanche destroying an entire…
While Palestinians are exhausted from the Israeli genocide and ethnic cleansing and the coordinators and volunteers of the Gaza Flotillas are tired,…
In the Spring of 2020, through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, grocery store shelves sat empty while local farms had…
Since the January 3, 2026, military strikes and kidnapping of President NicolĆ”s Maduro, the Trump administration has imposed semi-colonial rule over Venezuela,…
On 25 October, Brazilians will return to the polls to choose between President Luiz InĆ”cio Lula da Silva and FlĆ”vio Bolsonaro, son…
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