A Technological Travesty: E-waste in the Philippines
This essay won an Honorable Mention in the 2023 YRIS High School Essay Contest for its response to the following prompt: “What is a current ...
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How the World’s Largest Oil Company ‘Greenwashes’ the Truth
“Investing in Growth, Innovating for Sustainability” Typed in sleek white ink, these six words headline a 230-page document complete with modern visuals and tre...
Environmental Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative: Geopolitics and Climate Change
In his 1958 campaign speech, former United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, “We are busily engaged in the construction of a gigantic road system ...
An Emerging Catastrophe: Implications of Climate Change on the MENA region
In recent years, the state of countries in the Middle East and Northern African (MENA) region have painted a disturbing picture of the world ragged with em...
Community Solar Development in Bolivia: A Path Towards Climate Resilience, Decolonization, and Political Empowerment
Analyzing the interactions between capitalism, colonialism, and the field of international development in Latin America, this paper explores small-scale, commun...
Brinkmanship as Climate Policy: Trials and Tribulations
In October 1962, the Soviet Union began to install long-range, nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba – an unprecedented expansion of Soviet reach.[1] President Kennedy...
Lahore’s Fifth Season: Smog
South and Central Asia Desk Written by: Minahil Nawaz, Timothy Dwight College At 10 AM on 30th October 2019, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Lahore, Pakistan rea...
Sunda Strait tsunami calls into question warning mechanisms
Written by Putt Punyagupta On December 22, a tumultuous series of waves pummelled coastal settlements on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java, killing nea...
Yale Student heads Clean Energy Start-up in Egypt
Image Caption: Deena Mousa’s (‘20) Shamsina brings clean energy security to Cairo families Since 2015, Deena Mousa (JE ‘20) has served as the founder and h...
Second Place — Marine Biodiversity Protection in the Arctic: A Proposed Role for International Environmental Law In Conserving Arctic Marine Biodiversity
This essay first appeared in the Acheson Prize 2018 Issue of the Yale Review of International Studies. Abstract As global climate change accelerates sea ice los...