Category: Global

By Daniel Sarewitz My predictions for the next 20 years or so: Natural disasters such as floods, hurricanes and typhoons, earthquakes, and droughts will afflict more people than ever, at greater costs than ever, in poor nations and rich alike.…

Expanding access to reliable energy offers better route to address global challenges, climate and energy scholars say in new report. Drastically improved efforts to provide modern energy access to the poor opens up a new approach to development efforts and…

Clark A. Miller and Jennifer Richter Nuclear advocacy is at fever pitch in the United States. This week, CNN will air Pandora’s Promise, Robert Stone’s new film advocating a major push for new nuclear power plants. This weekend, several prominent…

By Clark A. Miller Everyone knows an energy revolution is coming—yet the most important feature of that revolution remains obscure to most people, even inside the energy industry. The social and economic organization of energy is about to change radically,…

Normally home to world-class physicists, Canada’s Perimeter Institute also plays host to another high-caliber gathering of thought leaders, change makers, and young visionaries, the Equinox Summit. The 2013 Summit, underway from September 28th – October 3rd, 2013, is focused on…

By Mary Jane Parmentier It has been <a title="Yasuni National Park One of Most Biodiverse Places On Earth" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119133510 team collaboration app.htmhttp://” target=”_blank”>said that there are more types of frogs in the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador than in the…

Nature, Pristine, Wild. These words ground the modern conservation movement. But a growing circle of new conservationists is making the bedrock shake. The call to action was most clearly sounded in a 2012 Breakthrough Institute essay titled, “Conservation in the…

By Eric Kennedy, This post has been updated from its previous version.  Conversations about innovation in the United States are rife with the adversarial language of exceptionalism. Take, for example, a recent article by Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the…