Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of fossil fuels in everything from power plants to transportation—Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the ...

Globalization continues—the widespread predictions of its death were wildly premature. But this is nothing to celebrate. The current round of globalization is in fact largely the product of “unhealthy ...

Food security expert Florian Ulrich Jehn explains how nuclear war would impact the global food trade, arguing that it is not ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Artist cooperative, Justseeds' installation at the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial (all photos courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University's Miller Gallery) The Pittsburgh Biennial is a city-wide event, taking ...

Balanced, authoritative, and up to date, this volume examines the profound effects of economic globalization on the well-being of individuals and communities in both developed and less-developed ...

The rise of globalization and income inequality are two defining trends of our time. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the volume of global trade has increased dramatically, and in the past few ...