Environmental journalist & researcher. Non-res fellow @StimsonCenter & @CntrClimSec, @TEDfellow. Author: THE HEAT AND THE FURY (Sept 2024).
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29 Oct 2025
Climate-related insecurity is coming for Europe, too. In the 1st exploration of the continent's vulnerability to troubles of this nature, we found that climate stresses are already fueling everything from rural crime to worse water tensions. Full report: peace.fes.de/e/a-distant-pro…
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9 Oct 2025
Join us for what we promise will be a fascinating, timely, and not necessarily-as-bleak-as-it-sounds discussion!
9 Oct 2025
How does climate change drive violence in the world’s most vulnerable regions?
Join us for a book talk with journalist @PSchwartzstein on The Heat and the Fury, exploring how climate change fuels global conflicts.
📅13 Oct |📍Strand
🔗Register now:
bit.ly/3Jlj8HW
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25 Sep 2025
OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK
Discover how climate change is feeding global violence - from urban crime to warfare - in The Heat and the Fury by @PSchwartzstein.
geni.us/HeatAndTheFuryPB
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18 Sep 2025
In The Heat and the Fury, @PSchwartzstein draws on years of on-the-ground reporting to tell the story of the links between climate change and global conflict.
Out next week in paperback: geni.us/HeatAndTheFuryPB
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3 Sep 2025
"In this messy new world, even state responses to climate change can fall afoul of border trouble."
An eloquent reminder on the stern threats but also opportunties coming from climate impacts and conflict by @PSchwartzstein
nytimes.com/2025/09/02/opini…
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8 Aug 2025
How does climate change drive violence in the world’s most vulnerable regions?
Join us for a book talk with journalist @PSchwartzstein on The Heat and the Fury, exploring how climate change fuels global conflicts.
📅13 Oct |📍Strand
🔗Register now:
bit.ly/3Jlj8HW
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26 Jul 2025
Fast spreading wildfire along the eastern flank of Parnitha, chewing through vegetation and, by the looks of things, some warehouses, just to north of Athens. There’s an even bigger fire on Evia. Smoke plumes are merging
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6 Jul 2025
Thanks to Trump’s Weather Service cuts, their 2 flood zone offices now lack a chief meteorologist, warning coordination meteorologist, senior hydrologist & staff forecaster.
And the top elected official in Kerr County, where the camp is, on their lack of a local warning system.
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19 Jun 2025
Join us at @london_climate for our webinar
"Climate conflict – Global heating as a driver of worldwide violence"
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🔹@PSchwartzstein, environmental journalist
🔹@NisreenElsaim, climate activist focused on policy, peace and security youth empowerment
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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
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22 Apr 2025
Floods are hard to cover when the road is washed out, by @PSchwartzstein. cjr.org/analysis/climate-cha…
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6 Apr 2025
Global warming doesn’t respect borders or bank accounts. As the effects of the climate crisis come faster, changing conditions threaten to apply the kind of pressure that even the richest of countries will struggle to withstand, notes @PSchwartzstein. thewalrus.ca/climate-violenc…
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10 Mar 2025
In episode two, David examines how water can be both a weapon and victim of conflict with @STIAGeorgetown's Marcus King, @georgetownsfs's @MarwaDaoudy, and @PSchwartzstein of the @CntrClimSec .
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10 Mar 2025
Evidence of climate contribution's to violence is overwhelming. So too is evidence of climate's hobbling of military infrastructure, military equipment, and military personnel. This is self-sabotage writ very large and very destructively
9 Mar 2025
John is, of course, correct.
The @DeptofDefense does not do climate change crap.
We do training and warfighting.
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Last chance to join us tomorrow for this event in in collaboration with @rsi_rice! Journalist & researcher @PSchwartzstein will present key findings from his new book, “The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of #Climate Violence.”
RSVP here: bit.ly/41qxIEM
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21 Feb 2025
Climate change doesn't just melt ice caps, it also fuels conflict, corruption and division worldwide, explains TED Fellow and journalist Peter Schwartzstein (@PSchwartzstein). From droughts in Syria to rising seas in Bangladesh, he explores how climate stress escalates existing social instabilities — and underscores why every effort to curb a warming world matters, no matter how small. ted.com/talks/peter_schwartz…
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31 Jan 2025
🎙️In this 14th episode of the podcast "Sur le front climatique" @PSchwartzstein, Environmental journalist & researcher, answers the questions of Mathilde Jourde @InstitutIRISabout the violence generated by the climate change.
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29 Jan 2025
Alongside a very kind review of my book by the legendary Robin Hanbury-Tenison, @GeographicalMag, the Royal Geographical Society's magazine, asked me to suggest a bunch of reads of my own. Here! geographical.co.uk/culture/w…
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7 Jan 2025
Climate change isn't just an environmental threat—it's a catalyst for conflict.
🎧 On this week's episode of #ColumbiaEnergyExchange, host @bill_loveless talks with journalist @PSchwartzstein about his new book 'The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence.' ⬇️
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31 Dec 2024
We are 76% towards our $25K goal! With just hours left before the New Year, make your contribution now to empower Iraq's environmental movement. gofundme.com/f/empower-iraqs…
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