Environmental Racism against Indigenous people is an important issue to examine as it concerns not just the people within the communities but everyone around the world. The deliberate targeting of […]
Food insecurity has been a persistent problem in the transition zone from the Saharan Desert to the African Savanna, commonly known as the Sahel region, since the food crisis in […]
On Nov 11, 2013, Xinhua, China’s official news agency, reported that an 8-year-old girl from Jiangsu, a northeastern province of China, has been diagnosed with lung cancer. She is the […]
The twenty-first century has been marked by countless natural disasters. Just to name a few – a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami in northeastern Japan in 2011, severe monsoon flooding […]
There is a distinction between extracting non-renewable natural resources for basic human uses and extracting non-renewable natural resources for mere ambition. Such is the case of gold, a resource that […]
In the midst of one of the greatest refugee crises in history, the stories of the Rohingya people are easily silenced. While media outlets and UN resolutions focus on Syria’s […]
The year 2013, marked by the entry foreign troops into Mali in early January, can be said to be a time when the war in the country took on the […]
Reports of widespread incidences of territorial violence and land-based conflict in the developing world saturate international news. However, one form of land violence, the commercial acquisition of lands belonging to […]
I’m watching the forecast for Hurricane Sandy halfway across the world and the weather map invariably shows a storm on the move. The clouds stewed briefly above the Caribbean, sure, […]
