Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Kazakhstan/China – Anti-China Sentiments Grows in Kazakhstan as Economic Cooperation Stalls (The Jamestown Foundation)

Serik Rymbetov writes: On July 6, Kazakhstan celebrated Capital City Day in commemoration of former president Nursultan Nazarbayev’s 1994 decision to move the capital...

Russia/Defense – Putin Expresses Support for Cossack Battalion in Russian National Guard (The Jamestown Foundation)

Richard Arnold writes: In a further sign of the rising importance of Cossack neo-imperial structures in Russia’s current political system, apparently President Vladimir Putin...

Russia/Defense – Naval Parade Plays Into Putin’s Dangerous Vanity (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev writes: Combat ships lined the Neva River in St. Petersburg and crowded the harbor of the nearby Kronstadt naval base last...

Aegean Sea – How Long Will the Aegean Sea’s Peaceful Summer Last? (BESA Center)

Burak Bekdil writes for BESA Center: How sustainable will the Aegean Sea’s peaceful summer of 2021 prove to be? For Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the...

Iran/Israel – Iranian Dissidents to Visit Israel (BESA Center)

Erfan Fard writes: At the end of July 2021, a delegation of eight Iranian opposition members will visit Israel to take part in cultural...

USA/Oman – Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Omani Deputy Foreign Minister Al Harthy (US Department

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today in Muscat with Deputy Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalifa Al Harthy to discuss advancing peace and security...

Lebanon/Israel – Lebanon’s Collapse, and the Significance for Israel (INSS)

Orna Mizrahi, Yoram Schweitzer write for INSS: The ongoing deterioration of Lebanon's economy and the country’s political chaos have sharpened the dilemma of Israel’s...

Iran – More Soul Searching: Iran’s Reformists following the Presidential Elections (INSS)

Raz Zimmt writes for INSS: The victory of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s presidential elections has reawakened the internal debate among Iranian reformists concerning the...

2021 Gaza War – Casualties in the 2021 Gaza War: How Many and Who Were They? (JCPA)

Eli Nirenberg, Lenny Ben-David write: During the 2021 Gaza War, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health in Gaza claimed there were 256 Palestinian casualties. The UN...

Israel – To Pray or Not to Pray on the Temple Mount? (JCPA)

Nadav Shragai writes: Religious practices on the Temple Mount have relied upon the long-standing status quo established by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in 1967,...

Space – Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede (NASA)

NASA writes: For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms...

Space – What You Need to Know about NASA’s Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (NASA)

NASA writes: NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight launches to the International Space Station on American rockets and...

Rainforest Vulnerability Index – Index Ranks Rainforests’ Vulnerability to Climate and Human Impacts (NASA)

NASA writes: Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and other international research institutions have created a tropical rainforest vulnerability index. It...

Space – Apollo to Artemis: Drilling on the Moon (NASA)

Leejay Lockhart writes: Fifty years ago, Apollo 15 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, sending Commander David R. Scott, Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden,...

Space/Agriculture – NASA At Your Table: The Space Agency’s Surprising Role in Agriculture (NASA)

NASA writes: Everybody needs to eat. Food is a basic necessity, and it is at the heart of every human culture and our sense of...

Russian Arctic – Perspectives of the Development of the Fisheries Sector in the Russian Arctic (The Arctic Institute)

Ekaterina Uryupova writes for The Arctic Institute: Commercial fishing is banned across much of the Arctic under the agreement signed in Greenland in 2018,...