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In one of Israel's tightest races yet, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu triumphed with the Likud Party capturing 30 of the 120 seats in Parliament. Leading up to the election, Netanyahu made some bold statements to sway right-wing voters, including that a Palestinian state would not be created if he were re-elected. How…

With the global population rising, analysts and policymakers have targeted Africa's vast wet savannas as a place to produce staple foods and bioenergy groups at low environmental costs. But a new report published in the journal Nature Climate Change finds that converting Africa's wet savannas into farmland would come at a high…

The third annual Princeton-Fung Global Forum will bring together researchers, scholars, policymakers and health officials in November to examine West Africa's Ebola outbreak as a case study of a modern plague. The event, to be held Nov. 2-3 in Dublin, Ireland, will highlight the multidisciplinary approach needed to resolve the…

Denise Mauzerall, professor of environmental engineering and international affairs in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, was named a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board. Her appointment is effective…

The White House recently announced that President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget will double the amount of federal funding for combating and preventing antibiotic resistance to more than $1.2 billion. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there are at least two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths…

During his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson launched what is now known as "the Great Society," a set of domestic programs and initiatives aimed toward eliminating poverty and racial injustice. Similar in scope to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda, the Great Society addressed such national interests as education,…