An AI sandbox breach exposed a new risk: powerful agents can turn tools and permissions into action, leaving guardrail-bound defenders at a disadvantage.
Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening
Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.
Introduction: The Radical Act of Stillness
In an age defined by perpetual connectivity and information overload, the search for silence has become a radical act....
A personal reflection on my meditation practice and experience in relation to the insights of neuroscience- no claim to expertise, as still struggling to...
Introduction: Mapping the Subtle Body
Within the vast landscape of Eastern philosophies, few concepts have captured the modern imagination as profoundly as the chakra system....
Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening
As regular readers of this blog know I have an abiding interest in Artificial Intelligence, and, in particular, it's potential to develop proto-consciousness, or,...
An AI sandbox breach exposed a new risk: powerful agents can turn tools and permissions into action, leaving guardrail-bound defenders at a disadvantage.
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 15
The atmospheric tension in Cape Town during the austral summer of 2017–2018 was characterized by a distinct psychological phenomena...
Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future
The chamber still looks improbably calm. Green marble. Translation headsets. Country names set out in alphabetical order, as though the world’s grief can be...
Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.
Shanghai, China. Flood resilience, wetland protection, riverfront redevelopment, and the tension between ecological adaptation and relentless construction.
Wetlands are vital, endangered ecosystems that act as the Earth's kidneys and carbon storage. We must protect these "living sponges" to ensure our own survival.
Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 9
For fifty years, urban planners have travelled to Curitiba to study what happened when a young architect-mayor decided that...
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild...
Women have played pivotal yet often underrecognized roles in shaping environmental philosophy from its inception through contemporary discourse. From Ellen Swallow Richards' pioneering...
Investigation into the multiverse of Nature Spirits, Devas, Beings of the Subtle Realms, is an ongoing fascination and project of mine stretching back several...
The question Philip K. Dick posed in 1968 was never really about sheep.
It was about the ineffable thing that separates life from simulation, consciousness...
Earth Voices News in brief —October 2025
IUCN has listed the Nullarbor barred bandicoot (Perameles papillon) as Extinct (EX) in its 2025 global Red List...
Listen to our Deep Dive over review of the content of this essay
The figure of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, stands as a beacon of profound wisdom whose teachings...
In May 2026, the international climate arena presents a striking paradox. It is alive, highly active, and structurally transformed, yet it remains profoundly underpowered relative to the physical systems...
On a quiet morning in the not-so-distant future, a human being wakes to the soft hum of a neural implant seamlessly delivering the day’s information directly to her brain....