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May 1, 2025
15 KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM A DECADE OF CLIMATE SECURITY REPORTING
Introduction For nearly two decades, the connections between climate change and security have been debated and discussed in a diverse array of fora—from universities, think tanks, and the Pentagon, to the National Intelligence Council, NATO, and United Nations. While...
Apr 23, 2025
Destabilization From ‘Within’: A “Termite Theory” of Climate’s Pathway to Violence
When we talk about climate’s contribution to violence, we generally characterize these stresses as external forces, as destabilizers applying pressure to already ‘messy’ socio-political contexts from above or outside. And there’s good reason for that categorization. It’s...
Apr 22, 2025
How Climate Change Foils Climate Reporting
Floods are hard to cover when the road is washed out.
Nov 15, 2024
On state securitization, artificial NGOs, and environmental journalism: An interview
Abstract This is an interview with environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein. In the interview, Schwartzstein discusses how states are increasingly securitizing and weaponizing climate change and the environment. This can happen directly, for instance when militaries prepare for climate change or...
Nov 11, 2024
Record global warming risks aggravating war and violence
At COP29, negotiators will be discussing the fate of a planet already riddled with climate-related conflict
Nov 1, 2024
The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise Again of the Middle East’s Most Ambitious Environment Scheme
For an initiative that has the potential to rework the Middle East, Project Prosperity would leave a remarkably small imprint on the ground. In its initial phase, Israel would build a new desalination facility on the Mediterranean coast south of...