Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.
Recent Antarctic research reveals accelerating ice loss patterns from sub-Antarctic islands to the continental ice sheets, with Heard Island's 22% glacier decline over 72 years exemplifying broader regional trends. Antarctica currently loses approximately 150 gigatons of ice annually¹, contributing 0.4 millimeters per year to global sea level rise, while unprecedented "five-sigma" sea ice events in 2023 signal fundamental changes in the Southern Ocean system that could accelerate future ice sheet losses².
The convergence of satellite observations, field studies, and climate...
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.
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 12
Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...
The Living Marsh
Feature · The Living World
The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water
At first light,...
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.
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...
Marine wilderness is vanishing fast—climate, overfishing, pollution, and mining threaten ocean life. Indigenous wisdom and bold protection offer hope.
Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.
Introduction: The Coded Gaze and the Question of Equality
The story of modern algorithmic bias often begins with a simple, personal failure of technology. Joy...
The first drug ever discovered entirely by artificial intelligence is working its way through human trials as I write this (November, 2025), a molecule...
The World of Ants: a ubiquitous empire of 20 quadrillion individuals. Explore their evolution, superorganism colonies, specialized societies, and ecological impact as global engineers.
Introduction: The "Gandhi of Grain" in a Contested Field
Listen to a summation of this article with our Deep Dive crew. "Vandana Shiva: Deconstructing the Monoculture of the Mind"
In the...
We are a species haunted by ghosts. They are the shadows of mammoths on the tundra, the echo of wings that once numbered in the billions, the silent, striped...
I started using shamanic journeying techniques many decades ago but it wasn't until 2017 that I embarked on a 7-year formal training program with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies...