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Faces of change: Fighting for a mercury-free future
Charito Elcano turned 60 this year, a milestone in a life fraught with ups and downs, challenges and opportunities and – in her case...
Beating the big smoke
Londoners are used to inhaling poison. In Victorian Britain, the sickly brown smog that blanketed the capital was known as a “pea-souper”, so thick...
Republicans Should Use Tax Reform to Pursue the Real Deficit Driver: Entitlements
In the weeks preceding the holiday recess, GOP congressional leaders passed two sweeping tax reform bills, hoping to produce a final version for President...
The Real Reason Why the Supreme Court Had To Ban Petcoke
The Supreme Court of India recently imposed a ban on the use of petcoke and furnace oil in the states of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh...
Abortion: Deal With It Ethically, Not Politically
President Trump’s executive office, on October 2, backed the US House of Representatives ban on 20-week abortions, labeled the H.R. 36: Pain-Capable Unborn Child...
Climate Change and China’s Mission
Authors: Shrey Das & Wang Li The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was passed in Rio de Janeiro with a vision...
Climate Change, Food Safety and the Global Health: An International Law Perspective
Worldwide, climate change is already affecting directly and indirectly the agricultural productivity and ecology of some organisms because of changing patterns in crop production,...
Read the new Journal of Rising Powers
Welcome to the second issue of the inaugural year of the Journal of Rising Powers. In our first issue, we focused a great diversity...
The inconvenient truth about “Faceless Eurocrats”
Faceless Eurocrats denying EU member states their rightful sovereignty are the bête noir of Eurosceptics across the continent, a major factor in both the...
Can the DRC stop the next Ebola outbreak?
Some unexpectedly good news came out of the long-beleaguered DRC on July 2nd, when the WHO declared an end to the Ebola outbreak that...