Saleem Ali
Professor and Contributor at National Geographic
Mercurial Professor. @NatGeo E-explorer; team @wef @Yglvoices; Member of @unepirp; Faculty @UDelaware Alum @MIT @Yale @TuftsUniversity - 🇵🇰🇺🇸🇦🇺🇺🇳
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
In a rare show of unity on May 29, 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled 8-0 in favor of limiting the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The court recognized that despite many noble intentions, the law has been misapplied as an ideological stalling tool against not only resource extraction projects but also renewable energy projects.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
Alaska’s vast wilderness has been a testing ground of human endurance for millennia as the gateway for human habitation of the Americas. It has also been a frontier for natural resource extraction from its time as a Russian territory to its post-purchase period as an American acquisition.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
The West African nation of Liberia stands out as a remarkable example of human resilience but also a somber warning regarding the fragility of development outcomes. As the first independent democracy on the African continent, the Liberian flag has one star but is otherwise reminiscent of the American Stars and Stripes banner.
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1 month ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
The Trump administration is seriously considering unilateral mining of polymetallic nodules from international waters and stockpiling them as a mineral reserve for strategic technologies. This would subvert more than three decades of international legal efforts to regulate extractive industries through the International Seabed Authority (ISA).
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2 months ago |
forbes.com | Saleem Ali
Amidst the current escalation of a global trade war, ecologist Jonathan Foley humorously noted on the social media platform Blue Sky that perhaps President Trump is secretly a “de-growther” and tanking the economy to help the environment! Jokes aside, a reduction in overall consumerism may well be an inadvertent silver lining to the economic cloud, similar to what happened during the COVID pandemic.
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We had an @NSF grant to do research in this border region between Norway and Russia but had to change our case study because after Ukraine invasion NSF did not want any research nexus with Russia. Failure of #sciencediplomacy https://t.co/if2FQGu5bZ
An extraordinary book and very timely - should lead @FCDOGovUK to get more actively engaged in peacebuilding given their vested legacy in current territorial conflicts from Kashmir to the Middle East
I wrote a book! https://t.co/2Xrp8wiyC1
