Acción climática
Can we litigate our way out of a climate catastrophe?
When Asghar Leghari sued the Pakistani government for failing to adequately protect people from the impacts of climate change, something surprising happened: he won.
John Letzing
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Acción climática
What will it take to hit the increasingly elusive target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C?
About 200 years ago it became evident that Earth’s atmosphere was doing a pretty good job of retaining life-nourishing warmth. A few decades after that, John Tyndall – a scientist and mou...
Salud y sistemas de salud
Is this the great vaccine-mandate resignation that wasn’t?
Members of the Swiss Guard, the elite soldiers sworn to sacrifice their lives for the Pope since 1506, triggered headlines last month when they decided a workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandat...
What the smallest country in mainland Africa can teach us about climate action
One country is doing what’s necessary to limit the destruction delivered by climate change. But you may have to squint to see it on a map.
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Why a focus on shareholders may be causing supply chain backups
The Dutch East India Company was probably the biggest corporation in history and frequently paid dividends to shareholders – sometimes in the form of cloves. That enduring largesse, even ...
Acción climática
Flood risk is rising. Here's where - and what can be done
In the days leading up to the COP26 climate summit, Shanxi province was hit with the worst flooding it’s ever recorded.
Geo-economía y Política
COVID-19 and climate change could see an end to economics as we know it. Here's why
A recent paper on the seemingly-mundane topic of inflation made a big splash with economists, mostly by suggesting they don’t really understand inflation.
Acción climática
Disappearing water in a warming climate: a story in four visuals
Water scarcity will be the biggest climate-related threat to corporate assets like factories within the next few decades, according to a recent report – but it seems to have barely regist...
Salud y sistemas de salud
The COVID-19 pandemic in data visualizations
It’s been slightly more than a year-and-a-half since the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. For many people, it may be hard to believe it hasn’t been longer.
Foro Institucional
Bad news for pasta lovers: the effect of climate change on food staples
Domesticated maize has been shaping civilization for about 9,000 years, and still provides a big portion of the developing world’s calories. By the 2040s, though, the odds that the four c...
Acción climática
How to ease suffering and save the lives of migrants and refugees
The Sonoran desert is an arid expanse roughly the size of New Zealand, with rugged terrain and temperatures that can hit 48°C (118°F). Last year, the remains of two undocumented migrants ...
Industrias en Profundidad
What’s behind China’s video game restrictions?
This article was updated 25 October 2021.
Geo-economía y Política
Where are fleeing Afghans finding refuge?
Afghans have left their country in large numbers for the last four decades, fleeing a communist coup, a destabilizing Soviet invasion that led to the Taliban’s repressive theocracy, and t...
Transición energética
世界能否学会热爱核能？
在我三岁的时候，我们位于郊区的分层式住宅以东30公里处的一个核电站反应堆，发生了部分熔毁。
Salud y sistemas de salud
How long will people live in the future?
Benjamin Franklin had already turned 70 by the time he signed the US Declaration of Independence in 1776, when the average man wasn't expected to live to see 34. The inventor and statesma...