by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Pandemics
Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on his career and the future of infectious disease. As I prepare to step down from my dual positions at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where I have been a physician-scientist for 54 years and the director...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Environment
The diptychs in this essay portray this connection by pairing my images of Antarctica with those of Louisiana. It is a visual dance of rhythms and patterns of two places so far apart, and yet whose fates are inextricably linked. Because, for me, combining photographs...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Economy
Banks and investors have already committed to financing more fossil fuel development than the planet’s atmosphere can safely absorb, according to London-based Carbon Tracker. If we have a chance of keeping average global heating below 1.5°C – a boundary...
by Omega | Nov 21, 2022 | Omega Resilience Awards, Worldviews
It is an honor and a special opportunity for us to be part, from the beginning, of this necessary and promising project. It has challenging objectives: to generate awareness and resilience in relation to the polycrisis. And it combines essential ingredients to achieve...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 20, 2022 | Omega Resilience Awards, Worldviews
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) is pleased to be partnering with the Omega Collaborative and Commonweal in executing the Omega Resilience Awards (ORA) programme through the Omega Resilience Awards – Africa (ORA – Africa) platform. We are excited about...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 20, 2022 | Polycrisis
Pandemic, drought, floods, mega storms and wildfires, threats of a third world war — how rapidly we have become inured to the list of shocks. So much so that, from time to time, it is worth standing back to consider the sheer strangeness of our situation. As former US...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 20, 2022 | Politics
A more nuanced depiction of voters and issues can help newsrooms better report on elections and political campaigns In writing about Sarah Palin and her 2022 bid for Congress, T.A. Frank made a promise to readers — and to himself. A past Palin critic, Frank set out on...
by Omega | Nov 20, 2022 | Worldviews
The war in Ukraine: yet another crisis. If alarm bells are ringing loudly and incessantly it’s because governments, civil society, activists, development organisations, and donors are signalling the negative impact of the war in Ukraine on African food systems. The...
by Omega | Nov 20, 2022 | Environment
My own “Oh Shit!” moment came in early 2009, two years after I began writing on the science and geopolitics of climate change for Agence France-Presse. I had reported on scores of peer-reviewed studies, talked to scientists, attended UN climate summits, and...
by Omega | Nov 20, 2022 | Polycrisis
In this fourth installment of conversations with Daniel Schmachtenberger, we dive deeper into the nuances of humans using energy, materials and technology. Human’s ability to develop and use tools is one of our greatest strengths—yet has also led to increasing...
