Ebola outbreak provides public health lessons for COVID-19
Mistrust, fear and rumours helped the virus spread in 2018, but training trusted local leaders helped stop it, U of A researchers find…
Tyranny oil should be treated like blood diamonds
Oil and gas revenues can be used by tyrannies, autocracies and dictatorships to oppress their populations…
Politics helped drive latest Saudi oil production cut
The need to generate cash, along with political pressure, compelled the Saudis to make some bitter decisions…
Abject failure in U.S., India in face of COVID-19 crisis
India has failed its citizens, especially the vulnerable. The U.S. has hobbled from one makeshift policy fiasco to another…
Chernobyl disaster’s legacy still resonates
New interest in Chernobyl as the result of an HBO miniseries prompts U of A historian to reflect on 1986 nuclear disaster…