The humanitarian system is overstretched, underfunded and under attack, the United Nations Humanitarian chief warned on ...

For those of you who don’t remember the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 (it even has its own acronym, GFC), it was no walk in the park. From late-2007 to mid-2009, a downturn in the US housing market ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves ...

When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths ...

Leaders face rising uncertainty at work. With AI adoption on the rise, organizational stability depends on psychological ...

The Earth is facing a global crisis, as water quantity and quality is projected to get worse, a new study has found. The study, published in Nature Climate Change by researchers at Utrecht University ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Robert Kaplan, acclaimed journalist and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent ...

The global education crisis is having vast and unprecedented impacts on our world today. Without an education, an entire generation is at risk of being left behind, derailing development gains and ...

In 2025, 305 million people need urgent humanitarian aid due to escalating crises. Conflict and climate change are causing unprecedented displacement, hunger, and destruction. Wars, including in Sudan ...

Global food insecurity has risen substantially since pre-pandemic times, exacerbated by extreme weather, climate change, war and conflict. What the U.N. World Food Program calls “a hunger crisis of ...

For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rates. Fueled by climate change, groundwater ...

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned of a global birth rate crisis after surveying people in 14 countries. Some 14,000 people were questioned as part of the study, and one in five had ...