Ryan Murdock is a staff writer for the HIR. He is interested in climate change and environmental issues, public health, and human rights law.
Energy & Environment
"The increasing consideration of cultural property and heritage in discussions on climate change brings with it the need to carefully develop strategies to protect these sites."
Energy & Environment
"Most troubling to scientists is the fact that mining could release carbon stored in the seabed and cause sediments to enter the ocean ecosystem in plumes hundreds of kilometers long."
China
"Amidst global discussion of the increasingly competitive dynamic emerging between China and the United States, Papua New Guinea (PNG) represents a potential battlefield."
Europe
"Both conflicts are politically driven and feature strong convictions by all parties, but violence and armed confrontations are extremely rare in Cyprus, while being a constant in Israel."
Asia
"Without a concerted nationwide push from Moscow towards a climate sensitive Russia, it seems that Putin’s changing attitudes towards climate could end up being nothing more than words."