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The world's lakes are disappearing
Water, water, ~~everywhere~~
The Great Salt Lake is a stunning place. On windless days, it turns into a mirror, reflecting the snow-capped mountains that ring the valley in which it sits. Antelope Island, the largest of many islands in...
Déjà vu, UNGA edition
Rinse, repeat
As I was preparing to recap this year’s UN General Assembly (UNGA), I went back through my notes from last year’s UNGA. I was struck by how accurately they describe this year’s UNGA: same concerns, same distractions, same...
Calls for reform grow louder
The times they are a-changin’
The UN Security Council was created in 1945. In the 80 years since, the world has changed dramatically. The same cannot be said of the Security Council.
It is one of the UN’s most important organs, charge...
Senegal comes back from the debt
What’s in a word
In 2024, Senegal’s (then) new government dropped a bombshell: The previous administration had hidden more than $11 billion in debt, it said. For context, that was equivalent to one-quarter of the country’s total extern...
The vastly uneven impact of rising fuel prices
Fueled up
There’s been no shortage of warnings that higher oil prices stemming from the US-Israeli war with Iran could prove devastating for developing countries (including our contribution to the genre back in March). Thus far, the im...
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