Bracing Ourselves for the Climate Tipping Point
After Earth’s warmest month in history, climate scientists gather in Geneva to debate whether we’ve already gone too…
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Is Water a Fundamental Human Right?
On a search to find our right to clean drinking water in U.S. and international law.
The Big Picture: Drought and Wilted Crops in Southern Africa, as Seen From Space
The current El Niño pattern, likely worsened by climate change, has brought drought and hunger to southern Africa.
The International Postal System Is Profoundly Broken—and Nobody Is Paying Attention
An obscure United Nations body is making mail from developing nations unnaturally cheap—and hurting e-commerce, manufacturing, and postal systems in industrialized countries. The Universal Postal Union is a secretive backroom club, but its missteps were born from the highest of ideals.
What Would Success—and Failure—Look Like at COP21?
Here are the best- and worst-case outcomes for the Paris climate talks.
How Tobacco Companies Target the Developing World
Cigarette manufacturers have set their sights on countries where tobacco-control laws aren't as robust.
INDC: The Acronym Standing Between Us and Disaster
What’s an intended nationally determined contribution?
Why Teaching Girls to Code Is Not the (Only) Answer
We must do more to fill the gender gap in tech leadership and venture capital.
#AylanKurdi, #RefugeesWelcome, and the Public as Dangerous Giants
Can a single photograph change the world?
The Case for Passports for the World’s Refugees
There is past precedent for the production of passports for refugees by an international body, and now is the time to use it.