It has been a hot, unbearable summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Wherever the temperatures are not breaking new records and the forest fires are not filling the air with suffocating smoke and other pollutants it is the floods that are hitting the high mark, including in places where water is becoming worryingly scarce over time….
By Daniel Orth and Lauren Brennan At the Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS) we appreciate the role that military personnel and equipment can play and have already been playing in areas struck by natural or human-made disasters ranging from pandemics, like COVID-19, to floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, industrial accidents and oil…
News bulletins in recent weeks have been full of references to natural disasters, floods in Western Europe, India and China, wildfires from California to the Mediterranean and even Siberia. Few now still doubt that climate change is happening and its impacts are affecting ever bigger parts of the world, more frequently and more violently. Trying…
