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Climate Fires and Anger as Fierce as the Santa Anna Winds

Berkeley Earth, a non-profit climate change organization, concluded that climate chaos was at its worst in the last decade. Its Global Temperature...

15.01.2025 10

Evaggelos Vallianatos

The Future of Our Food is Not in Vast Factory Farms

Prologue Quite by accident, a neighbor said to me that the New York Times had a lengthy opinion piece in support of animal farms, which represent...

25.12.2024 3

Evaggelos Vallianatos

The Return of Odysseus to Ithaca

Prologue Homer and his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are fundamental to Greek history, mythology and civilization. Homer lived during the...

20.12.2024 2

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Leaf Blowers: An Invisible Source of Climate Chaos and Harm to Human and Environmental Health

Prologue One of the reasons I moved to Claremont, California, in 2008 was Claremont’s banning of the gasoline-powered leaf blowers. I detested...

11.12.2024 5

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Lessons of the Peloponnesian War

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It opens the doors into...

28.10.2024 10

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Roots of War: Western Civilization and the Turks

Prologue: The ambiguous dream of Western civilization The idea of Western civilization has always been an ambiguous dream among rulers and thinkers...

14.10.2024 3

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Glyphosate and Neonicotinoids are Poisoning Honeybees (and the World)

Prologue The twentieth century gave birth to honeybee neurotoxins – organophosphate, carbamate and neonicotinoid pesticides. It also gave birth...

08.10.2024 10

Evaggelos Vallianatos

Red Fire Ant Wars

Origins Like flees and rats that carried the bubonic plague to Europe from Asia in the fourteenth century, two of the four fire ant species arrived...

24.09.2024 3