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Climate Change Impacts on the Helmand River Basin of Afghanistan: Implications for Local Livelihoods and Transboundary Water Conflict
I examined the effects of climate change on the transboundary HRB in Afghanistan. Climate change has significantly changed the basin’s hydrological pattern, increasing pressure on its water resources. The decrease in river flow has led to rising tensions and conflicts among the riparian countries.
Can artificial intelligence stand with truth against falsehood?
We live in a time when lies often travel faster than facts, when emotion overwhelms evidence, and when repetition begins to sound like truth. In this confusing landscape, many people are turning to Artificial Intelligence with a quiet hope, can AI stand with truth against falsehood?
From Awareness to Assurance: What Two Saudi Studies Reveal About AI’s Next Chapter in Accounting
This post synthesizes insights from two published Saudi studies into a practical roadmap for responsible AI adoption in accounting, and it outlines research questions that can help advance rigorous, impact-oriented scholarship.
Securing the “Things”: The Story Behind Our IoT Cybersecurity Framework
The rapid growth of connected technologies has transformed the way we live, work, and build modern systems. Yet, behind every smart device lies an often overlooked question:
How do we keep these systems secure long after they are deployed?
Single Use Plastics: From Modern Marvel to Global Menace
In 1907, Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, marking a turning point in material science. Cheap, durable, and easily moldable, plastic was originally seen as a miracle alternative to natural materials like ivory and tortoiseshell.
Power-hungry intelligence systems?
The environmental price of training and running Artificial intelligence systems is currently enormous and why it matters for our climate goals
Regenerative and restorative epistemology (L'Épistémologie régénératrice et réparatrice): the foundation of a new contract for social, cognitive, and ecological justice
By regenerative and restorative epistemology, we mean ways of thinking and knowing that are deeply rooted in the relational ontologies that structure our ways of doing, living, coexisting, and inhabiting, which can be observed in the Global South as well as in the global North.
