On November 1, 2024, “All Saints Day” in Roman Catholic Christianity, the E.U. announced that a peaceful delegation of the elected represent...

John Locke claimed that “the main intention of nature” is “the increase of mankind and the continuation of the species,” the “preservation o...

On a trip to Indonesia in early September, 2024, Pope Francis signed a declaration on religious harmony and environmental protection at ...

Monetary inflation is a complex phenomenon. Not only can its causes be several; it can make it more difficult to distinguish immediate and m...

Agriculture is a major source of carbon and methane emissions, which in turn are responsible for the general trend of the warming of the pla...

There is a temptation, especially since the global average temperature reached the 1.5C increase threshold in 2023 much faster than anticipa...

On March 26, 2020, “the US overtook Italy and China as the country with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases.”[1] At first glan...

In his treatise on  Understanding , David Hume posits that we don’t know as much about causation as we think we do. Often times, positive c...

“While patrolling on a recent cold night, environmentalist Grigoris Gourdomichalis caught a young man illegally chopping down a tree on p...

How well can the democratic form of governance serve as a means by which a society is circumscribed, or restricted in some way? In other ...

According to the Huffington Post, “Amid the millions of births and deaths around the world each day, it is impossible to pinpoint the arriv...

Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning rose 5.9 percent in 2010, the largest amount on record, according to an analysi...

As the Northern climes warm, our species may soon be vulnerable to ancient—even beyond ancient— bacteria and viruses. We are familiar with ...

Even as Chinese government officials “called on the United States to recognize established science and to work with other countries to red...

In 2015, average global CO2 levels for the year surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time, the WMO revealed in its 2016 annual   G...

Around 252 million years ago, the “Great Dying” took out 90% of the world’s species. About 66 million years ago, a meteor caused the extinc...

For August 2012, the unemployment rate in the E.U. was 10.5 percent, which translates into 25 million Europeans without a job. In the U.S.,...

At the end of February 2012, the World Bank released its “China 2030” report in Beijing. The bank’s president, Robert Zoellick, said that Ch...

I contend that it is in our interest as a species to see that our population size is managed toward a steady state rather than as a maximiz...