This article was published as part of our Spring 2019 print edition, the entirety of which may be found here. One of the world’s tallest buildings, The Makkah Royal Clock Tower,…

Known previously as Burma, Myanmar was subject to British colonial rule from around 1820 to 1948, like its surrounding neighbors of Bangladesh and India. Surprisingly, for most of Burma’s history,…

This article was published as part of our Spring 2019 print edition, the entirety of which may be found here. On March 15th, 2019, an Australian man opened fire in two…

On April 11, 2019, Julian Assange left the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the first time in seven years. He didn’t leave of his own volition; he was dragged out…

The role of human-made carbon emissions is central to current discussions and scientific research on climate change. A major goal of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol was to reduce the carbon…

Over the last ten years, US party politics have prevented climate change from being treated as the national security threat that it is and turned the discourse surrounding it into…

The monetary and infrastructural effects of climate change are incredibly apparent to the world as wildfires, floods, and storms increase in severity due to the worsening of climatic conditions. Swiss…

Since the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, the world has already warmed by one degree Celsius and human activity continues to raise average global temperatures. Every degree above pre-anthropocene…

“There is no Planet B.”  In April 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron addressed1 a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, staked out a hard-line position on climate leadership, and exhorted…

The United Nations defines a refugee as “a person forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, violence or war”. This definition arises from the UN Refugee Convention,…