Peter Schweitzer

Jan 15, 2025 | nature.com | Susanna Gartler |Johanna Scheer |Alexandra Meyer |Khaled Abass |Annett Bartsch |Jade Falardeau | +11 more

AbstractPermafrost thaw poses diverse risks to Arctic environments and livelihoods. Understanding the effects of permafrost thaw is vital for informed policymaking and adaptation efforts. Here, we present the consolidated findings of a risk analysis spanning four study regions: Longyearbyen (Svalbard, Norway), the Avannaata municipality (Greenland), the Beaufort Sea region and the Mackenzie River Delta (Canada) and the Bulunskiy District of the Sakha Republic (Russia).

Nov 15, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Anne Applebaum |Juliana Geran Pilon |Peter Schweitzer |James Hankins

Making sense of the geopolitical landscape after 1989 would be hard enough without the self-inflicted fantasy that ideology, and thus history, had reached its final resting place. Once the infamous Iron Wall pulverized into the dustbin of history, Western intellectuals fed on a steady diet of dialectics proclaimed the emergence of a new consensus. The new world no longer needed to be brave: it was becoming flat.