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Both Sides Say Project Is Pivotal Issue for Brazil

June 23, 2007
A proposal to build two dams on Brazil’s Madeira River has sparked debate about the value of economic growth versus environmental protection. An environmental agency denied the construction license, but the government ordered more studies. Environmentalists cite many concerns about building the...

Scientists Say Gulf Spill Altering Food Web

July 23, 2010
Some plants and animals can withstand abrupt changes in their environment, and scientists predict long-term, even permanent changes in some habitats of the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill forces life forms to contend with more chemicals along with less sunlight and oxygen. All life depends on other...

互联网能够驯服政府吗？——上篇

February 9, 2011
西方国家正在激烈争论，在专制国家里，互联网到底是争取自由的工具，还是控制自由的又一种手段。在埃及爆发大规模抗议事件后，首次出现了政府将整个国家互联网络切断的情况。本期的耶鲁全球系列文章就政府和互联网谁更有统治力进行了探讨。第一篇文章由一家网络安全公司Renesy公司的首席技术官詹姆斯•考伊（James Cowie）撰写。文章阐述了互联网技术因素，解释了埃及互联网服务的缺乏多样性如何使得政府部门通过勒令少数几家互联网服务供应商断网，就轻而易举地切断全国与互联网的联系。然而从长期来看，通过断网来压制对政府的非议的方式产生了高额的经济成本和声誉成本。考伊认为，...

Stumbling Blocks Threaten Kyoto, Copenhagen

October 16, 2009
It is no secret that global community must act swiftly and decisively to curb carbon emissions and thus halt climate change. Originally, the Kyoto Protocol was one attempt to solve such problems, its many critics notwithstanding. Now the US and a small group of developed nations want to dismantle...

Forest Clearances Sealed Ancient Civilisation's Downfall

November 17, 2009
New evidence involving plant remains and pollen samples from areas in Peru formerly inhabited by the Nasca civilization has led a team of archaeologists to conclude that the fall of the Nasca society was triggered by human intervention in the delicate ecosystem on which it depended. The evidence...

Globalization’s Unequal Discontents

January 23, 2007
Sometimes globalization is a mechanism that levels playing fields and sometimes it is a bulldozer. Throughout history, globalization has often enriched business owners and risk-takers, while doing little for ordinary workers. In recent years, the modern workforce has gradually included more...

累范特地区的基督教徒正濒临绝迹

December 10, 2010
基督教大约在两千年前诞生于中东，并沿地中海迅速传遍累范特地区的各个国家（Levant countries），随后又跨越地中海传到世界其它地区，成为一股遍布全球的宗教势力。然而，2010年“耶鲁大学世界学者”、黎巴嫩国会议员发言人梅•阿克勒（May Akl）分析道，自从2003年美国及其盟国入侵伊拉克以来，累范特地区的基督徒的权利不断遭到侵犯，致使中东地区基督徒的数量日益减少。美国以及其它西方民主国家将它们同威权政体的结盟作为首要考虑事项，而忽视宗教少数群体的权利，从而导致了一系列针对基督徒的绑架、虐待和暴力事件，包括今年十月在巴格达一所基督教堂发生的爆炸事件，有46人在该起事故中遇难，...

Leading Iraqi Scientist Says He Lied to U.N. Inspectors

April 27, 2003
Since the earliest days of fighting, the US-led coalition in Iraq has been searching for the scientists, documents and biological and chemical toxins that would validate Washington’s charges that Iraq had developed a sophisticated program for creating weapons of mass destruction. While there have...
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