NEWS
ARTICLES BY FORMER FELLOWS
Copenhagen's missing ingredient: water
Scientists stress water's profound link with climate change, yet delegates at next week's conference have deleted water from the working draft of a binding environmental treaty.
By James G. Workman (November 30, 2009)
Climate change conjures up factory smoke, corn ethanol, cap-and-trade, hybrid cars. It also evokes Al Gore, drowning polar bears, African famine and Hurricane Katrina. All these triggers and the issues they invoke, backed by mounting evidence of irreversible risks to humankind, will converge next week in Copenhagen.
The complete article can be viewed at: www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-workman30-2009nov30,0,1355625.story
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The sinister echoes of November 9
By David Binder (November 5, 2009)
GlobalPost – International News
Anniversaries are the times to remember where we were when something significant happened. For Germans, Nov. 9 recalls 1989 when the Berlin Wall suddenly opened a crack and swiftly crumbled.
www.globalpost.com/dispatch/germany/091104/november-9-1989-berlin-wall-germany
By Andrew J. Tabler (August 28, 2009)
FOREIGN POLICY.COM
Foreign Policy on the Obama Administration's seven-month engagement with Syria post last week's Iraq attacks.
www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/28/syria_clenches_its_fist
OTHER ARTICLES BY ANDREW TABLER
www.andrewtabler.com
www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC10.php?CID=66
roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/talking-to-syria/?scp=1&sq=andrew%20tabler&st=cse
SLATE.COM
Earlier this summer, the Taliban released a DVD that suggested Baitullah Mehsud was losing his mojo. Unlike other propaganda videos, which show Taliban cadres conducting real ambushes in Afghanistan or firing rockets in the…
OTHER ARTICLES BY NICHOLAS SCHMIDLE
www.nicholasschmidle.com
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Africa-t.html?pagewanted=all
Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?
By Andrew Rice
The New York Times
In a series of meetings, Saudi government officials, bankers and agribusiness executives told an institute delegation led by Zeigler that they intended to spend billions of dollars to establish plantations to produce rice and other staple crops in African nations like Mali, Senegal, Sudan and Ethiopia...
www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html
OTHER ARTICLES BY ANDREW RICE
Unwanted?, The New Republic, 26 Aug 2009
Magazine Preview: Mission From Africa, The New York Times, 8 Apr 2009
Key | Spring 2009: A Cold Season in the Hamptons, The New York Times, 14 Mar 2009
News from Former Fellows - 2008
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From the Archive
The “mammoth” in the ice cave. (The “tusks” were added to an ice block containing scattered tissue – but certainly not a whole mammoth.)
“The Discovery Channel’s ‘mammoth’ story seemed to crumble to pieces. The next day, finding the ice cave empty save for a few men lugging out reindeer carcasses, my two colleagues and I were tempted to cut a piece of reindeer meat and lodge it in the ice block to become the next great find of soft tissue.” [read newsletter]
—Gregory Feifer
Russia
ICWA Fellow (2000-2002)