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Enric Sala

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Enric Sala is Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.

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  1. A Triple Win for Oceans, Climate, and Us
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    A Triple Win for Oceans, Climate, and Us

    Mar 18, 2021 Enric Sala highlights new research demonstrating the benefits of establishing marine protected areas.

  2. Nature Is Our Best Antiviral
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    Nature Is Our Best Antiviral

    May 14, 2020 Enric Sala explains why preserving land and marine environments is essential to stopping pandemics before they start.

  3. Now or Never for Saving Our Natural World
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    Now or Never for Saving Our Natural World

    Mar 9, 2020 Enric Sala explains why combating climate change must include stronger protection of ecosystems on which humans depend.

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    The End of Georgia’s European Dream?

    Salome Samadashvili

    Initial evidence suggests that the victory of the pro-Russian Georgian Dream party in the recent parliamentary election reflects widespread fraud. If the West fails to support democratic opposition parties in challenging the results, Georgia’s 30-year-old democracy could come to an end.

     urges Western leaders to take steps to halt the country’s slide into authoritarianism.
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    Belarus in the Dock

    Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė & Aarif Abraham explain why Lithuania is requesting an International Criminal Court investigation into its neighbor.
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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

    Robert Z. Lawrence explains why there is no going back to the heyday of middle-class factory jobs for low-skilled workers.
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    Is Political Polling Broken?

    Michael A. Bailey urges pollsters to stop thinking in terms of random samples and instead focus on diagnosing non-response bias.
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    Don’t Dismiss the BRICS

    Joschka Fischer thinks it would be a serious mistake for Western strategists to ignore the bloc and what it represents.
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    Can India Become a Developed Economy by Mid-Century?

    Anne O. Krueger urges policymakers to resume key structural reforms and streamline regulations that stifle business activity.
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    Why Many Workers Now Vote Republican

    Eric Posner explains how the failures of neoliberalism came to benefit the traditional party of business.
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    Japan’s Electoral Stalemate

    Takatoshi Ito considers the political and economic implications of the ruling bloc’s loss of its parliamentary majority.

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