In an earlier era, rampaging monks sought to create the Christian equivalent of the ISIS caliphate.

From small island nations to the Middle East’s major powers, water stress is a severe challenge for many countries.

The Venezuela opposition win is both astonishing & unsurprising. It’s not an unqualified good result.

The past, present and future of plastic production.

The homegrown attacks in the U.S. and Europe have more in common with secular mass shooters than with Mideast jihad.

What factors have helped the United States reduce its per capita emissions?

Why Silicon Valley’s techno-utopian vision of “sharing economy” is a mirage.

Obama could have changed the US economic system again, but the Great Recession resulted in changes on a much smaller scale.

The world’s second-largest nation faces a true culture clash.

How Indonesia’s out-of-control deforestation and slash-and-burn contributes massively to global warming emissions.