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New Study: Coastal Flooding Could Cost Up to 20% of the Global Economy

Ebru Kirezci, University of Melbourne and Ian Young, University of Melbourne Over the past two weeks, storms pummelling the New...

Eight Catastrophic Risks That Threaten Humanity — And How International Cooperation Might Stop Them

There is a certain category of disaster, whether manmade or natural, that poses an existential threat to humanity. These are...

Crisis in Mali

Mali is in the midst of its most serious political crisis in years. Thousands of people have taken to the...

Another Devastating Humanitarian Crisis is Colliding with COVID-19 in South Asia: Monsoon Floods.

More than 9.6 million people in India, Bangladesh and Nepal have been affected by flooding from this year’s devastating monsoon...

Why Foreign Aid and Global Development Donors Should Publish What They Fund

Billions of dollars are spent each year on foreign aid and global development. In the past, the exact amount of...

The Quest for a COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes More Promising

Oxford immunologist on coronavirus vaccine: our early results look highly promising Numstocker/Shutterstock Rebecca Ashfield, University of Oxford A vaccine against...

How Slumping Oil Prices and COVID-19 Are Shaking Up the Geopolitics of the Middle East

As the Coronavirus Pandemic tore through the world this spring, it resulted in sharply lower demand for oil, driving down...

WHO and UNICEF: “Alarming Decline” in Childhood Immunizations Due to COVID-19

For months, health experts working in underimmunized areas have warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is interrupting life-saving vaccination campaigns, particularly...

Kosovo, Serbia and Rising Authoritarianism in the Balkans

Since the Kosovo War of 1999, the status of Kosovo as a country independent of Serbia has not been resolved....

New Study: Coastal Flooding Could Cost Up to 20% of the Global Economy

Eight Catastrophic Risks That Threaten Humanity — And How International Cooperation Might Stop Them

Crisis in Mali

Another Devastating Humanitarian Crisis is Colliding with COVID-19 in South Asia: Monsoon Floods.

Why Foreign Aid and Global Development Donors Should Publish What They Fund

The Quest for a COVID-19 Vaccine Becomes More Promising

How Slumping Oil Prices and COVID-19 Are Shaking Up the Geopolitics of the Middle East

WHO and UNICEF: “Alarming Decline” in Childhood Immunizations Due to COVID-19

Kosovo, Serbia and Rising Authoritarianism in the Balkans

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations