International Political Forum

Petri-Dish Patty: A Worrying or Brave Step in Future Meat Production?

Overpopulation has been a big problem for food production for a long time, and with a current world population of 7.2 billion, which is predicted to rise to 9.6 million by 2050, it seems that Armageddon could be caused by the ...
by Ozlem Unat
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COP19: Australia won’t be missed

“If you are not at the table, you are probably on the menu,” said Erwin Jackson of The Climate Institute incapsulating the unusual move by the newly elected Australian government in not sending a minister to COP19. NGOs acr...
by Kahil Lloyd
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COP18: When did we stop caring?

Every year, there’s a new round of climate change negotiations. Another meeting where we fail to set emissions that will prevent catastrophic climate change. And the global community seems to care less about nothing happening...
by Jeremiah Brown
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The US Heat Wave And The Climate ‘Debate’

Western USA is feeling the burn. Not only was last month Nevada’s hottest June ever recorded, but when the temperature peaked at 47.2°C (116°F) in Vegas just two days ago, it tied with the hottest temperature ever record...
by Urban Times
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International Political Forum

The Cost of Carbon: Climate Change and Our Way of Life in North America

The human impact of global warming is real. Changing climates aren’t something that will happen in five, 10, or 100 years from today. They are happening now, and ways of life that we’ve known for generations are dis...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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COP19: Day One

The tragedy in South East Asia was fore in the minds of those at COP19. Parties offered sympathy and solidarity at the first plenary session. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres said that the typhoon is the most rece...
by Kahil Lloyd
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Fukushima and the health impact of Japan’s nuclear policy

More than three years have passed since Japan’s now-infamous nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi experienced a meltdown following an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011.
by Abbie Saunders
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Youth and Environmental Volunteerism

It is clear that the world now faces multiple environmental challenges that if not addressed wholly and timely, will explode to a state of irreversibility. Some people may even argue that it has already reached a point of no re...
by Daniel Wasonga
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International Political Forum

WATCH: The True Cost of Coal

Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...
by Nicky Armstrong
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