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India, Chennai, 2021-08-10. An Indian woman carries clothes to wash in a waterbody inside a quarry in Chennai. A climate report released by the United Nation's (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), predicts that unless humans make immediate changes to limit methane emissions, carbon dioxides and other heat-trapping gases, the earth will continue to warm with devastating effects on human and animal life. India would face similar impacts in addition to the frequent occurrence of glacial lake bursts in the Himalayan region and inundation of low-lying coastal areas. For India, a increase in annual mean precipitation could be accompanied by more severe rainfall events over southern parts of the country in the next few decades. Photograph by Sri Loganathan Velmurugan / Hans Lucas.Inde, Chennai, 2021-08-10. Une femme indienne porte des vetements a laver dans un plan d eau a l interieur d une carriere a Chennai. Un rapport sur le climat publie par le Groupe d experts intergouvernemental sur l evolution du climat (GIEC) des Nations Unies (ONU) predit qu a moins que les humains n apportent des changements immediats pour limiter les emissions de methane, de dioxyde de carbone et d autres gaz piegeant la chaleur, la terre continuera de se rechauffer avec des effets devastateurs. sur la vie humaine et animale. L Inde serait confrontee a des impacts similaires en plus de l occurrence frequente d eclatements de lacs glaciaires dans la region himalayenne et d inondations des zones cotieres basses. Pour l Inde, une eventuelle augmentation des precipitations moyennes annuelles pourrait s accompagner d episodes de precipitations plus severes dans les regions meridionales du pays au cours des prochaines decennies. Photographie de Sri Loganathan Velmurugan / Hans Lucas.

Success of the Paris Agreement hinges on the credibility of national climate goals

David G. Victor, Marcel Lumkowsky, Astrid Dannenberg, and Emily Carlton

Friday, September 30, 2022

An Afghan woman walks with her children on the anniversary of the fall of Kabul on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 15, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara

Has US policy toward Taliban-ruled Afghanistan failed Afghans?

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Handout file photo dated February 15, 2020 of Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) conducts normal underway operations transiting in the Taiwan Strait. Two United States Navy warships have entered the Taiwan Strait in what is the first US naval transit in the waterway since US-China tensions spiked this month over a visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The guided-missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville were on Sunday making the voyage "through waters where high seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law," the US 7th Fleet in Japan said in a statement. It said the transit was "ongoing" and that there had been "no interference from foreign military forces so far." U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Gregory N. Juday via ABACAPRESS.COM

A Taiwan perspective on what is at stake after Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan

Monday, September 26, 2022

Christine Lambrecht (SPD), Minister of Defense speaks at the 2022 Bundeswehr Conference in Berlin.

Germany must shake off its habit of finding excuses for inaction

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, September 16, 2022

Giorgia Meloni, leader of far-right Fratelli d'Italia party, poses for a picture after an interview with Reuters, in Rome, Italy, August 24, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

What happens if right-wing Giorgia Meloni wins Italy’s elections?

Friday, August 26, 2022

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks next to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Sandra Oudkirk during a meeting at the presidential office in Taipei, Taiwan August 3, 2022. Taiwan Presidential Office/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.

Beyond Pelosi’s Taiwan visit: Uncertainties about cross-Strait stability

Ryan Hass and S. Philip Hsu

Monday, August 22, 2022

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Wednesday August 3, 2022, marking a significant show of support for Taiwan despite China's threats of retaliation over the visit. During the meeting with the president of the self-ruled island, Tsai presented Pelosi with a medal. Pelosi's stop in Taipei became the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China. Her trip comes at a low point in U.S.-China relations and despite warnings from Beijing, threatening the Chinese military never sit idly by if she made the trip.

What is Taiwan’s plan to protect itself against Chinese pressure?

Friday, August 19, 2022

Chinese and Taiwanese flags are seen in this illustration, August 6, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Implications for Taiwan of the divergence in narratives on China’s future

Monday, August 8, 2022

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards his airplane at Ngurah Rai International Airport as he travels to Bangkok, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia July 9, 2022. Stefani Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS

US Secretary of State Blinken to visit Africa as tension with China and Russia intensifies

Friday, August 5, 2022

The sun sets beyond machinery at a Kiewit Offshore Services construction site in Ingleside, Texas on July 18, 2022. Kiewit is manufacturing an offshore oil drilling platform called 'Vito' for the Shell company, which, upon completion, will be installed in the Gulf of Mexico to extract petroleum for gasoline resources. (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

The climate bill’s oil and gas provisions are a worthwhile tradeoff

Thursday, August 4, 2022