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Ecoclimatic and biogeographic transition zone in Africa
The available reporting does not show definitive evidence that a global, all‑out World War III is imminent, but multiple expert scenarios and rising geopolitical flashpoints make the risk non‑negligib...
Assessing whether “Islam is dangerous to the West” requires distinguishing between a tiny minority of violent extremists and the vast majority of Muslims, and between criminal-terror threats and broad...
Major near‑term risks that could cascade into a wider war by 2026 center on three geographic theatres—Europe (Russia–Ukraine), the Indo‑Pacific (Taiwan / South China Sea / U.S.–China military friction...
Global data assembled in the provided analyses show that , with the Sahel, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia, and parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of Islamist extremist ...
Reports claim that Christians in Niger face coercion—conversion demands, a punitive “tax,” or expulsion—prompting hundreds of families to flee and suffer in makeshift camps. Coverage differs on scale ...
Islamist terrorism shows both revival in lethality and geographic spread in 2024–2025: the Global Terrorism Index finds Islamic State remained the deadliest group in 2025, causing 1,805 deaths and ope...
Empirical research over decades finds that a large share of individuals who commit or join terrorist organizations have post‑secondary or university education rather than no schooling, and universitie...
Solar geoengineering—mostly studied as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) or marine cloud brightening—could cool the planet but carries a range of environmental side effects that researchers and ag...
Since 2001 the global landscape of terrorism has shifted: datasets and scholars show that, once civil-conflict trends are controlled for, has been less “terror‑prone” than the years before 2001 , even...
Political motivations — a broad category that includes partisan, anti-government, ethnonationalist and other politically framed grievances — now account for the largest share of terrorist incidents in...
Global Islamist extremist attacks rose sharply after 2000, peaked in the mid-2010s driven by the expansion of groups such as al‑Qaeda and especially ISIS, and have since morphed into a more geographic...
There is no single, reliable percentage in the available reporting that answers “what percent of Islamists have strong anti‑West sentiment or are anti‑other religions.” Sources show that Islamism is a...
Islamist terrorism remained a dominant and evolving global threat in 2024–2025, with the Islamic State and its affiliates responsible for some of the deadliest attacks and highest casualty totals — th...
Terrorism—especially jihadist attacks and Islamic State (IS) activity—shapes public perceptions of "Islamic violence" by producing high-profile massacres, inspiring lone actors online, and driving med...
The chief geopolitical tensions that analysts warn could spark a wider great‑power war center on a US–China contest in the Indo‑Pacific (especially Taiwan and the South China Sea), Russia’s war in Ukr...