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Whenever I visit my grandparents, my Brazilian grandfather is constantly making me eat. He fills my plate (and my stomach) with yucca, homemade pizzas, freshly made salads, and my personal favorite, pão de queijo, or Brazilian cheese bread. I can’t walk out the door without a case of coconut water or a couple of puzzles
Yemen is often described through the vocabulary of war: conflict, displacement, hunger, poverty, collapsed institutions and humanitarian need. Increasingly, however, another reality must be placed at the center of the country’s future. Yemen is a climate-vulnerability crisis as much as it is a conflict crisis. The distinction matters because climate change is not an abstract
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Conquest, War, Famine, and Death — were originally symbolic figures in the Book of Revelation, meant to warn early Christian communities of cascading catastrophe. Today, the horsemen ride again, from our own ingenuity, from laboratories, reactors, data centers, and carbon-producing coal mines, cars, and the like. In the
The systemic realization that human, animal, and ecosystem health are fundamentally indivisible was formally institutionalized more than six decades ago. In 1964, Dr. James H. Steele — widely recognized as the father of modern veterinary public health — established the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES). Driven by a rigorous public health vision, Dr. Steele patterned
Today’s ESG Updates UK Banks Emerge as Europe’s Biggest Financial Backers of Coal: UK lenders provided $8.3 billion to coal-linked companies over four years, with Barclays and HSBC both ramping up financing even as most EU banks pulled back. India Greenlights Nearly $20 Billion Push to Modernize Its Power Grid:The funding will expand transmission capacity
Artificial Intelligence (AI) could help advance health, education, scientific research and conservation, but its direction raises urgent questions about who benefits, who decides and what kind of world we leave behind. This article argues that universities must do more than teach people to use AI: they must strengthen independent judgement, democratic participation and responsibility for
Today’s ESG Updates What If AI R&D Gets Automated: A new paper by some of the industry’s most influential figures explores the risks of potential control loss and an intelligence explosion. Heat Pump Gold Rush: The war in Iran has pushed the European Commission to plan incentives for EU governments to lower electricity taxes and
Over 50 years ago, Park Chung Hee, then President of the Republic of South Korea (ROK), secretly began a program to obtain nuclear enrichment capability by acquiring a reprocessing plant to manufacture the raw material of atomic weapons. When the existence of that program was confirmed, American policy at the highest levels was to “discourage
Most digital services feel intangible to the people using them. The infrastructure that makes them possible is not. Every cloud application, artificial intelligence (AI) model, streaming platform, and online transaction depends on buildings filled with computing equipment, power systems, cooling infrastructure, networks, and increasingly dense hardware. That physical footprint is growing quickly. The International Energy
Today’s ESG Updates Oracle Invokes ‘Force Majeure’ on Contested New Mexico Data Center: Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer of its massive AI data center in New Mexico, adding another setback to a project that’s already faced challenges. AI Coding Tools Add Nearly $1 Billion to Health Insurers’ Costs, Study Finds: Hospitals
Today’s ESG Updates Chicago Researchers Warn Super El Niño Could Drive Heat Deaths Past 450,000: A new analysis projects the current “super El Niño” could cause up to 451,000 excess heat deaths, with East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa hit hardest. EU Governments Move to Keep Carbon Prices From Spiking: EU countries agreed to keep more
Today’s ESG Updates Nations Fall Short on UN’s 30×30 Biodiversity Pledge: New research shows only 20% of land and 10% of oceans are protected under the 2022 biodiversity framework. Lohum Eyes Nickel Mines in Indonesia and Philippines: The Indian battery-materials firm aims to boost nickel output tenfold to 10,000 tons annually. Banks Warn of Fraud