International Security

Global warming is estimated to cost more than $3,000 per second, according to a 2009 study by the Global Humanitarian Forum[1]. While political leaders may be timid when it comes to taking responsibility and defending our nature, preferring to prioritise what they see as the interests of their own people to those of the world’s population, it will soon become — if it is not yet the case — in their economic interest to act for the environment.

While many may be focused on the recent plunge of the U.S. Stock Market, the latest Brexit talks, or Angela Merkel’s attempts to form a coalition, the city of Cape Town, South Africa, is just weeks away from experiencing an extreme water shortage.

The insurgency by the Houthi rebels in Yemen may be far away but it has the potential to affect us all.

The bear is a very deceptive animal. Appearing slow and inoffensive in reality the bear is one of nature’s most vicious predators. Above all its other characteristics, bears can be very dangerous to humans.