For the past forty years, United States Presidents have repeatedly called for a reduction in the country's dependence on fossil fuels in…
Extracting, delivering, and disposing water requires energy, and similarly, many processes for extracting and refining various fuel sources…
Recent national trends in investments in global energy research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) are inconsistent around the…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
In his acceptance speech as Chairman of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) in February 2010, President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi…
African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as…
Identifying “revolutions in military affairs” is arbitrary, but some inflection points in technological change are larger than others: for…
African countries are increasingly focusing on promoting regional economic integration as a way to stimulate economic growth and expand…
The current global economic crisis, rising food prices, and the threat of climate change have reinforced the urgency to find lasting…