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Prospects dim
Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/01/2026
» Re: "Land bridge will harm nature", (Opinion, Dec 31).
Not about safety
Postbag, Published on 12/07/2025
» Re: "Safer tourism needed now", (Editorial, July 11).
Why is the US presidential race even close?
News, John Mark Hansen, Published on 04/11/2024
» I teach a course at the University of Chicago on elections, and I hear the same kind of question from friends on both the right and the left. The GOP cannot understand why Donald Trump is not far ahead in the polls, whereas the Democrats wonder how it can possibly be that Kamala Harris is not running away with the race.
The gigantic 'anomaly' in climate change
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2024
» It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age about 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It wasn't a smooth process at all.
2024: the year it got (really) hot
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/01/2024
» The year 2023 has probably been the hottest in the past 10,000 years -- but everybody agrees that 2024 will be even hotter. That's because we are now entering El Niño, the part of a seven-yearly oceanic cycle that heaps extra heat on whatever is already occurring.
From efficient markets to 'animal spirits'
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 09/12/2023
» Ten years ago, Eugene Fama and Robert J Shiller were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (together with Lars Peter Hansen) "for their empirical analysis of asset prices".
Modest drop in emissions can help the world
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2023
» At the opening of the COP28 global climate summit, here are some thoughts about the state of climate science.
Iraq enabling Islamic State revival
News, Bobby Ghosh, Published on 19/03/2019
» Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi holds the world responsible for rebuilding Iraqi cities destroyed in the war to liberate them from the control of the Islamic State (IS). Noting the great sacrifice in blood by Iraqi forces in that war, Mr Abdul Mahdi told a press conference this week, "The world has to repay the favour in terms of the security, stability and stopping the movement of displacement to other countries. The world has to repay the favour to Iraq to rebuild its areas".