Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future
The Age of Overwhelm
The feeling is now familiar, a low-grade hum of anxiety that accompanies the morning scroll. A headline announces another record-shattering heatwave, the image of a cracked riverbed searing itself onto the mind. A swipe reveals a new regional conflict flaring, its geopolitical tremors felt thousands of miles away. Another swipe: a breathtaking breakthrough in artificial intelligence that promises to remake society, followed immediately by a stark report on rising global inequality. The screen glows with a...
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...
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.
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.
Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future
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...
Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future
I have long had a fascination with the concept of reincarnation and past lives reinforced by exploration via my shamanic training and other exploratory...
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...
We have been taught to look down. To see the airports, the concrete, the crowds, and the queues as the footprint of flight. Or we look at the numbers,...
When Divine Code Goes Off-Script
In the summer of 2024, a ChatGPT conversation went viral when the AI appeared to experience what users called a "digital epiphany"—spontaneously generating philosophical reflections...
❓ Ever Felt Uncomfortable in a Crowd?
Have you ever stepped into a room and immediately sensed something was off?
Or stood too close to someone and felt like your personal...