Debra Javeline

Oct 1, 2024 | magazine.nd.edu | Debra Javeline

No matter who wins the 2024 presidential election in the United States, the Earth’s climate emergency will accelerate. Governments have avoided binding commitments to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Their pledges would reduce emissions only at a crawling pace and in insufficient quantities, and countries have failed to meet those pledges anyway. They are also failing to adapt to the new climate reality.

Dec 18, 2023 | wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Debra Javeline |Robert Orttung |Graeme Robertson |Richard Arnold

1 INTRODUCTION Climate change will shape the future of Russia, and vice versa, regardless of who rules in the Kremlin. The world's largest country is warming faster than Earth as a whole, occupies more than half the Arctic Ocean coastline, and is waging a carbon-intensive war while increasingly isolated from the international community and its efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

Apr 5, 2023 | magazine.nd.edu | Debra Javeline

The worst act of terrorism in Russian history began as any other first day of school, with excitement and celebration. On September 1, 2004, in the small town of Beslan in southern Russia, schoolchildren and their teachers, families and other guests gathered at School No. 1, wearing their best clothes and ready to participate in rituals that date back to the 1930s. They expected the oldest students to lead the youngest to an assembly.