By Ayrel Clark-Proffitt It’s Day 4 of Earth Week, and the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory again ignited the day with its welcome provocation. Today, Andrew Maynard, associate dean for student success in the College of Global Futures, gathered ocean and space experts to ask: Why go to space…

By Ayrel Clark-Proffitt What comes first, people or planet? No, this isn’t a chicken vs. egg philosophical riddle. (Or is it?) The query was part of a series of events surrounding provocative questions, led by Andrew Maynard, associate dean for student success in the College of Global Futures. In reality…

By Ayrel Clark-Proffitt It’s the beginning of Earth Week at the soon to be renamed ISTB7, home of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. The week is full of dozens of engaging events, but it started with a somber recognition that the war in Ukraine is an immediate global…

By Peter Schlosser, Ayrel Clark-Proffitt and Manfred Laubichler This month, total known deaths from the pandemic topped 6 million. The true figure is certainly higher–estimates put the excess deaths between 14–24 million. No disease, terrorist attack or natural disaster has led to such a staggering death toll on a global…

This response to the IPCC Working Group 1 contribution to the 6th Assessment Report is presented by the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University, co-authored by Peter Schlosser, Manfred Laubichler, Jason Franz, Joni Adamson, Michael Barton, Steven Beschloss, Nina Berman, Gary Dirks, Julianna Gwiszcz, Christopher Wharton…

By Peter Schlosser, Steven Beschloss, Clea Edwards and Jason Franz When Jason Franz headed east from Phoenix on February 13, he didn’t plan on providing a first-person account of the catastrophic winter storm that struck Texas. He thought he was just driving his teenage son from Arizona to Texas for…