Research showing that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is breaking up lends an hallucinatory air to our political and business discourses, writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. We carry on as though the historical world will last forever, as if our biggest problem
What were populations potentially at risk, are now the doomed. CHRIS WOOD: NATURAL SECURITYPublished May 17, 2014 If there were before some footing left for doubt, narrow and slippery though it might have been, there is none left now. The world as
Thailand is once again roiled by political turmoil, with a rural-urban split. Will there be civil war? Can the country’s aging King Bhumibol Adulyadej hang on? What will come of its democracy when Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, “seen as a vindictive man with thuggish instincts,”
JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 14, 2014 Thailand’s military leaders are clear that they don’t want to launch another coup, but the growing intensity of the political chaos may give them little choice. Last week’s ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra by the Constitutional Court
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The science journal Nature released an extraordinary video this week. It’s of a computer model called Illustris, which aims to show the creation of the universe. An excerpt of the Nature report: “Mark Vogelsberger, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Backed by its arsenal of modern ships, submarines, warplanes and missiles, Beijing has become increasingly assertive over its territorial disputes with its neighbours, writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe. The most recent — and most dangerous — case is in the South China
JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 9, 2014. The Chinese government seems determined to provoke a military clash with its neighbours over disputed ownership of islands and conflicting maritime boundaries. This week’s clashes between Vietnamese naval and coast guard vessels, and Chinese ships defending a deep-sea
North Korea is reportedly preparing for an underground bomb explosion at its Punggye-ri testing site, and also to test an inter-continental ballistic missile at its Sohae launch site. And amid rising tensions, there is no international consensus on a response. The country’s
JONATHAN MANTHORPEMay 7, 2014 If North Korea’s young and unpredictable leader Kim Jong-un nursed any doubts about his need for nuclear weapons, recent events in Ukraine and Syria will have dismissed them. With American and other spy satellites showing that North Korea
