Brazil can roughly remain within its fair allocation due to its abundant carbon sink resources but there are large uncertainties surrounding the estimates of its deepest technically feasible emissions reductions. The remainder of India’s equitable warming budget is about ten times the cumulative ...
Many of the countries surrounding the Pacific Ocean have helped to create an economic miracle that has become known as the Pacific Rim. In 1944 the geographer N.J. Spykman published a theory about the "rim" of Eurasia. He proposed that the control of the rimland, as he called it, would...
We're all familiar with the traditions surrounding Valentine's Day in America –a dozen roses, a box of chocolates, a store-bought card (or a handwritten one, if you've got a way with words). But across the globe, every culture has its unique twist on Valentine's Day customs. Carved...
The red color symbolizes revolution and the yellow color of the stars the golden brilliant rays radiating from the vast red land. The design of four smaller stars surrounding a bigger one signifies the unity of the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist party of China. China’s ...
This attitude informs Singa- pore's approach toward the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its associated provisions, leading it to support the process surrounding the arbitration the Philippines initiated in response to PRC claims (Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...
Today, only Russia and Germany remain, with the latter country soon to fall out of the top 20 ranking. Ukraine, which was shrinking, is expected to fall to at least 41st place due to the turmoil surrounding the Russian invasion of the country. Since the invasion began in February 2022, ...
which make up about ninety-seven percent of Japan's land area. Japan's population of 126 million is the world's tenth largest. The Greater Tokyo Area, which includes the de facto capital of Tokyo and several surrounding prefectures, is the world's largest metropolitan area, with over 30 mi...
Explore the circumstances surrounding the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967, to the public. U.S. officials eventually soured on Diem, tacitly approving a 1963 coup that resulted in ...
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its surrounding areas) is home to over 65% of the population. Iceland is the only part of the Mid-Atlantic ...
The uncertainties surrounding the potential health risks associated with uranium from phosphate fertilizers applied to agricultural soils made for a great, balanced topic within the P-Game, and we could experience that participants with more elaborated negotiation skills would usually be able to decide ...