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Geopolitics nato

How Trump Could Wind Up Killing NATO — With His Treatment Of Canada Alone

by Ranjani Iyer Mohanty March 12, 2025

File photo of Donald Trump speaking with Justin Trudeau at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, back in 2019.

Geopolitics nato

How Trump Is Treating Canada — That Alone Makes NATO Null And Void

by Ranjani Iyer Mohanty March 7, 2025March 12, 2025

The Contours Of Putin's Ambitions Have Never Been Clearer

Geopolitics geopolitical shift

The Contours Of Putin’s Ambitions Have Never Been Clearer

by Petro Andryushchenko and Olena Starik February 25, 2025March 8, 2025

"It's The Ice, Stupid" — Trump Wants Greenland For The Wrong Reasons

Geopolitics greenland

“It’s The Ice, Stupid” — Trump Wants Greenland For The Wrong Reasons

by Paul Bierman January 29, 2025March 9, 2025

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Economy argentina

How Latin America Misplayed Its Commodities Boom

by Liz Garrigan December 9, 2024

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Inside The Search For Record-Breaking Sapphires In A Remote Indian Valley

by Marine Béguin October 23, 2024

Photo of archeologists at work in Mes Ainak, south of Kabul, before Chinese state owned mining company MCC starts building a new project.

Geopolitics afghanistan

How China Is Doing Business With The Taliban

by Meike Eijsberg October 4, 2024

CHANGSHA, April 18, 2024 An aerial drone photo taken on April 11, 2024 shows Li Yang processing mud samples extracted from the bottom of the Datong Lake at the workstation at Datong Lake in Yiyang, central China's Hunan Province. Dongting Lake in central China's Hunan Province is the second-largest freshwater lake in the country. Located on the central region of the Dongting Lake, Datong Lake is known as ''the heart of the Dongting''. Due to disorder aquaculture development, the water quality of Datong Lake was once seriously deteriorated.. In January 2018, an aquatic vegetation planting project was launched in Datong Lake area, with a team from Wuhan University providing technical guidance. In order to support the comprehensive water environment management and ecological industry development of Datong Lake, a scientific workstation was established here in April 2019.. Li Yang, a postdoctoral fellow from Wuhan University, has been working at Datong Lake since 2018. While completing the project experiments, Li Yang and other stationed researchers also regularly monitor the water quality, vegetation and soil dynamics of the Datong Lake basin, laying a good scientific foundation for the next step of lake management.. Nowadays, the water quality of Datong Lake has seen significant improvement, and the coverage area of aquatic vegetation has stabilized at about 50,000 mu (about 3333.33 hectares). With the improvement of biodiversity, the ecosystem has developed steadily.. During the six years of work in lake management, Li Yang completed his doctoral project in Datong Lake and continued his postdoctoral research here. Over the years, he has been deeply involved in the local ecological governance and green development, witnessing an impressive transformation of Datong Lake. (Credit Image: © Chen Zhenhai/Xinhua via ZUMA Press)

Green agriculture

To Save The Planet, French Farmers Are Working To Save Soil

by Stefano Lupieri June 23, 2024

A wheel loader transports gravel to the side dumps of the processing plant.

Green natural resources

Depleting Supplies, Drawing Lines: The Geopolitics Of Sand

by Paul Molga June 13, 2024

Aluminium mining in Brazil

Latin America Must Break The Commodity Curse

by Emily Liedel April 13, 2024

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War in Ukraine arctic

How The War In Ukraine Could Overturn Everyone’s Plans For The Arctic

by Anna Akage January 4, 2024March 16, 2025