Sustainable irrigation can feed billions, make agriculture resilient to climate change

Washington, DC As climate change shifts precipitation patterns, irrigation can be a powerful tool for increasing the worlds food supplyfeeding more than a billion additional people without converting natural spaces into farmland, according to a new study by Carnegies Lorenzo Rosa published in Environmental Research Letters. Population trends indicate that we will need to double …

Global nuclear arsenals are expected to grow as states continue to modernize–New SIPRI Yearbook out now

(Stockholm, June 2022) The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) today launches the findings of SIPRI Yearbook 2022, which assesses the current state of armaments, disarmament and international security. A key finding is that despite a marginal decrease in the number of nuclear warheads in 2021, nuclear arsenals are expected to grow over the coming …

Rukmini Moitra, Sulekha and being pensive in the pandemic!

Like they say, there are poets and there are poets. There are the ones who write only for the adulation that they seek. And there are the ones who put their most precious thoughts on paper, jealously guarding their emotional outpourings, chary of giving strangers access into the innermost recesses of their souls. Rukmini Moitra …

Global CEOs Commit to Collective Action on Cyber Resilience

For the first time, 18 global organizations from the oil and gas ecosystem are championing a unified approach to mitigating growing cyber risks and pledging to promote cyber resilience The global cost of cybercrime is expected to reach $10.5 trillion a year by 2025; the threat of infrastructure breakdown due to a cyberattack is the …