“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” ― Samuel Johnson The quintessential truth underpinning this famous statement by the renowned eighteenth-century British poet, playwright,…

In recent decades, climate change has evolved from a supposed distant problem for future generations to a major imminent security threat for all nations worldwide.[1]  Climate-change-induced food and water shortages, combined with sea level…

The COVID-19 or the Coronavirus pandemic — a virus that originated in Wuhan in the Peoples’ Republic of China in late last year — claimed a handful of lives in its initial days and months, but has since spread rapidly across the globe…