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Like most of Americaās wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing…
āWhile technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus.āĀ ā Pope Leo XIV The artificial…
The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphereācapturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, privatizing,…
The March 30 announcement arrived with the bluntness that has become a hallmark of the Trump administrationās environmental retreat: The U.S. Army…
The United States, along with 14 other high-tech countries, established Pax Silica in December 2025 as a āstrategic initiativeā to counter Chinaās…
President Trump signed the āOne Big Beautiful Billā (OBBBA) into law on July 4, 2025. The law rolls back many parts of…
Forgotten Water: How Cities Desertify Their Own Territories In modern cities, a silent paradox repeats itself: in countries affected by drought, rainwater…
The global population continues to grow, and by 2050, experts estimate there will be nearly 10 billion people on Earth. As the World…
SANTA MARTA, COLOMBIA ā As the US and Israeli war against Iran puts oil at the centre of global concerns, a new…
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), water is far more than a resource. It is memory, territory, survival, identity, and…
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