Sep 19, 2016
An elephant and her young one are seen during their aerial census at the Tsavo West national park within the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem, February 4, 2014 (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters).

Can Multilateral Efforts Save Threatened Wildlife?

Dozens of wildlife species are endangered, pushed ever closer to extinction by habitat loss and illegal trade. This is an important and disquieting element of the so-called Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch to describe the current period, in which the earth and its complex systems have been fundamentally shaped by human activity.

An elephant and her young one are seen during their aerial census at the Tsavo West national park within the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem, February 4, 2014 (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters).

Dozens of wildlife species are endangered, pushed ever closer to extinction by habitat loss and illegal trade. This is an important and disquieting element of the so-called Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch to describe the current period, in which the earth and its complex systems have been fundamentally shaped by human activity.

May 04, 2017
U.S. President Donald Trump (R) listens during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hold in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Impatient and Distracted: The United States and NATO Under Trump

Headlines about the future of transatlantic relations, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in particular, in late 2016 and early 2017 mostly warned of doom and gloom. Part of this sentiment could have been attributed to a sense of disorientation—even declinism—following the success of Donald J. Trump’s U.S. presidential bid.

Whither NATO Under Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) listens during a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hold in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Headlines about the future of transatlantic relations, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in particular, in late 2016 and early 2017 mostly warned of doom and gloom. Part of this sentiment could have been attributed to a sense of disorientation—even declinism—following the success of Donald J. Trump’s U.S. presidential bid.

Whither NATO Under Trump