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Alex Kliment
Creative Director, Senior Editor/Producer
Alex wears a few different caps and tips them all regularly. He writes for the GZERO Daily, works as a field correspondent for GZERO's nationally syndicated TV show GZERO WORLD WITH IAN BREMMER, and writes/directs/voices GZERO's award-winning puppet satire show PUPPET REGIME. Prior to joining GZERO, Alex worked as an analyst covering Russia and broader Emerging Markets for Eurasia Group. He has also written for the Financial Times from Washington, DC, and Sao Paulo Brazil. In his spare time, he makes short films and composes scores for long ones. He studied history and Slavic literature at Columbia and has a Master's from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He's a native New Yorker, a long-suffering Mets fan, and owns too many bicycles.
Jun 12, 2018
We’ve written a number of stories about how environmental changes can shape geopolitics, but here’s a story of the moment in which geopolitics decisively reshape the environment.
The mile-wide ribbon of demilitarized territory (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea meanders along one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world. Bounded by barbed wire and scoured by snipers, it’s no place for humans to tread. As a result, we have learned from Smithsonian magazine, it has become an unlikely sanctuary for dozens of endangered flora and fauna, including two rare species of crane (the red-crowned and white-naped, for the bird nerds among you) often found in classical Asian art. Any rapprochement between North and South that eases border tensions is sure to ruffle some (actual) feathers.
