by Catherine Foley | Nov 20, 2012 | Monitor
The drums of war are beating loudly in northwest Africa. Over the last year, after a March coup d’état in the Malian capital of Bamako, the country has slipped towards failed-state status. The chaos in Bamako in the country’s south led to a vacuum in the country’s...
by Catherine Foley | Aug 17, 2012 | Monitor
The extreme drought that has continued to ravage US corn and soybean crops this summer will cause a sharp drop in US feed grain supplies, which are projected to be 2.2 billion bushels lower in 2012/13, according to the latest forecasts from the United States...
by Catherine Foley | Aug 1, 2012 | Monitor
Although climate change has become a taboo topic on Capitol Hill in recent years, extreme weather occurring all around the US this summer shows that something is changing around the country. It is having devastating and costly effects. This morning, Congress had its...