Check here periodically for news and resources about the work of the Skoll Global Threats Fund.

• Articles

  • 2/22/12New York Times – Peaceful Protest Can Free Palestinians
  • 2/16/12Washington Post – History Could be a Deterrent to Iranian Aggression
  • 2/15/12New York Times – Where the Colorado Rivers Runs Dry
  • 2/14/12New York Times – California's Clean Cars
  • 2/13/12Foreign Policy – A Failure to Communicate
  • 2/10/12New York Times – As ‘Yuck Factor’ Subsides, Treated Wastewater Flows From Taps
  • 2/9/12Washington Post – Why the U.S. should resist stoking the chaos in Cairo
  • 2/8/12Huffington Post: D.A. Henderson, Scientist Who Helped Eradicate Smallpox, Says U.S. Is Unprepared For Bioterrorism
  • 2/7/12Bloomberg: Peak Everything?
  • 2/6/12Los Angeles Times – Sacrificing the Desert to Save the Earth
  • 2/3/12Wall Street Journal – Cultivating Arab Spring Entrepreneurs
  • 2/2/12Tmes of India – Oceans Play Important Role in Climate Change
  • 2/1/12Wall Street Journal – Check with Climate Scientists on Climate
  • 1/31/12Scientific American – Climate Change Has Helped Bring Down Cultures
  • 1/30/12Economist – American Coal – A Burning Issue
  • 1/27/12New York Review of Books – How the Occupation Became Legal
  • 1/26/12Huffington Post – Living on Thin Ice
  • 1/25/12U.S. Shifts Policy on Nuclear Pacts
  • 1/24/12TIME – Is There Still Hope for Democracy in Egypt?
  • 1/23/12Los Angeles Times – The Verdict is in on Climate Change
  • 1/20/12The New Republic – Are We Sliding Towards War With Iran?
  • 1/19/12Wall Street Journal – The Palestinians and the Arab Spring
  • 1/18/12Los Angeles Times – Burning America's Future
  • 1/17/12Washington Post – Climate and the Culture War
  • 1/13/12Reuters – Investors: Private Sector Must Tackle Climate Change.
  • 1/11/12Discovery News – 'Doomsday Clock' Tickes One Minute Toward Destruction
  • 1/10/12Foreign Affairs – Can the Center Hold?
  • 1/9/12Washington Post – How to Unfreeze a Middle East Stalemate
  • 1/5/12Washington Post – Iran's Growing State of Desperation

• Skoll Global Threats Fund in the Media

  • 2/15/12Stanford Social Innovation Review – Jeff Skoll
  • 10/21/11Forbes – Jeff Skoll Joins Forbes' Biggest Givers List, Receives Global Humanitarian Award
  • 09/14/112020 Science: Contagion, plausible reality and public health: Conversation with Larry Brilliant
  • 09/14/11CNN – How "Contagion" Spread to the Big Screen
  • 04/05/11BBC Forum: Is Heroism Obsolete?
  • 03/16/11Larry Brilliant Speaks at University of Michigan on Sustainable Humanity
  • 09/09/10Changing Global Mindsets: Economist Ideas Economy Blog
  • 06/21/10Larry Brilliant Challenges Students at Singularity University
  • 06/15/10Larry Brilliant in a University of Minnesota "Great Conversation."
  • 04/28/10Larry Brilliant on facing threats, The Economist
  • 03/19/10Global threats: 5 challenges for 2010, Fortune Brainstorm Tech
  • 01/23/10Facing Global Threats: Here's Some Good News, The Huffington Post
  • 05/05/09The Age of Pandemics, Wall Street Journal

• Press Releases

  • 01/21/10Skoll Global Threats Fund Announces First Investments and Newest Executive
  • 04/14/09Dr. Larry Brilliant Joins Jeff Skoll to Combat Urgent Global Challenges

• Video

  • 11/23/11TakePart – Eric Nonacs: You can see climate change if you're looking
  • 10/20/11Jeff Skoll to Receive 2011 Tech Awards Global Humanitarian Award
  • 10/11/11Larry Brilliant at the Global Zero Summit
  • 03/31/11Sylvia Lee Waxes Wishfully on Water
  • 06/12/10Jeff Skoll Stanford Graduate School of Business Commencement Speech