by Evan Meltzer | Jun 24, 2013 | Monitor
Vice Admiral Lee Gunn, US Navy (ret.), Brigadier General Steven Anderson, US Army (ret.), and Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, US Marine Corps (ret.) all from the American Security Project published a piece on Breaking Energy addressing energy security in the 21st...
by Evan Meltzer | Jun 19, 2013 | Monitor
Authored by Evan Meltzer & Kareem Chin Yesterday, leaders from the Group of Eight (G8) concluded the 39th annual G8 Summit in Northern Ireland and published a final communiqué detailing their commitment to addressing food security and climate change. These issues...
by Evan Meltzer | Jun 13, 2013 | Monitor
The Rising and Sinking Threats to Our Cities Gaia Vince / BBC Sea-level rise due to climate change has already raised the risk of extreme floods in major coastal cities around the world, and many are slowly sinking into the oceans. U.N. says 93,000 killed in Syrian...
by Evan Meltzer | Jun 10, 2013 | Monitor
On June 1, 2013, the Institute for Current World Affairs (ICWA) held its Semi-Annual Meeting & Symposium, in which the topics included farming and food security in Senegal and broader implications for the current crisis in the Sahel region. The panel proceeded to...
by Evan Meltzer | Jun 10, 2013 | Monitor
Climate change is a real and pressing issue affecting the Sahel and Maghreb regions of North and West Africa today. Weather pattern changes are causing desertification and prolonged drought in these regions. The Gulf of Guinea experienced an increase in water...
