How Climate Change Is Helping Al Qaeda

The Sahel is environmentally fragile and politically unstable. Here’s how climate change is making a difficult situation worse.

Global Post
作者 Global Post

NAIROBI, Kenya and GAO, Mali—  The Sahel is an environmentally fragile zone that stretches across Africa just south of the Sahara desert. To get a better idea of how climate change can worsen conflict there, GlobalPost spoke with three experts on the topic: Drew Sloan of energy efficiency company Opower, Marshall Burke of the University of

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Organization Seeks To Bridge The ‘Digital Divide’

A new advocacy group is working to find ways to bring much-needed Internet access to the developing world.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese

Recently, the call to expand Internet coverage globally has driven many to seek new solutions toward spreading the technology. One novel attempt toward achieving this is being undertaken by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), a newly created group that aims to “drive down artificially high Internet prices in developing countries. By

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