by Chris Yang | Nov 30, 2020 | Climate + Environment
After enduring record summer temperatures in 2019 and 2020, a massive, 42-square-mile chunk of ice – an area larger than the city of Paris – broke off from the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf, the Nioghalvfjerdsfjorden. Scientists believe the...
by Chris Yang | Nov 11, 2019 | Climate + Environment, World
The acrid smell of burning wood was unmistakable. Crouched on the muddy ground, and trying to look inconspicuous to the family of hornbills above, I let out a muffled cough. Even under the dense canopy of the world’s oldest rainforests, I could not escape the...
by Chris Yang | Sep 23, 2019 | Opinion, Politics + Society, World
At midnight on August 5th, India cut off all communication lines to, from, and within Kashmir. While the world’s attention had been on the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, India moved brazenly towards annexing Kashmir completely. By revoking Article 370,...
by Chris Yang | Feb 7, 2019 | Politics + Society, World
On Tuesday, February 5th, US president Donald Trump announced his intentions to hold a second nuclear summit with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, in Vietnam on February 27-28. The US president formally confirmed the details of this exciting news during his...
by Chris Yang | Oct 1, 2018 | World
On Friday, the first series of tremors were felt at 3am EST, 35 miles north off Palu, Indonesia. Consequently, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake occured at a shallow depth of 10km just off the central island of Sulawesi, triggering a tsunami as high as 20 ft, hitting the...
