The first drug ever discovered entirely by artificial intelligence is working its way through human trials as I write this (November, 2025), a molecule...
Executive Summary
In November 2025, the Australian Parliament enacted a transformative suite of environmental legislation, fundamentally reshaping the Commonwealth’s approach to biodiversity conservation, project assessment,...
Abstract
Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at a pivotal juncture, poised for a decade of unprecedented evolution. This report reflects on AI's projected trajectory by 2035,...
AI warfare: autonomous weapons, cyber attacks, and algorithmic targeting transform modern conflict. What moral boundaries must we establish before war becomes fully automated?
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
South America contained 1.7 billion acres of wilderness in 1500—95% of the continent's land area.¹ The Amazon basin alone...
When Revolutionary Observation Transforms Pedagogy
In January 1907, something extraordinary unfolded in Rome's impoverished San Lorenzo district—a physician's experimental classroom for sixty slum children would...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 12
Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the sea rises around it. In response, China has rolled out the most ambitious urban water-management programme in history — the Sponge City Initiative...
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, the marsh breathes. Mist rises off black water in slow exhalations, and the reeds shiver under the weight of birds too small to...
GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 10
In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In 2019, its entire taxi fleet followed. These are not incremental improvements or pilot schemes — they are structural transformations, achieved at a speed...
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 8
Every Sunday, Bogotá returns the streets to its people. That act — repeated for fifty years, in a city of nine million at 2,600 metres above sea level, in a country still reckoning with decades of violence — is both a practical...
GREEN CITY SERIES| ARTICLE 11
How river daylighting changed the argument in South Korea’s capital — and why the harder work of a green city lies beyond one celebrated stream
Few urban projects have entered the global planning imagination as forcefully as Seoul’s restoration of the Cheonggyecheon. The removal...
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 a city was not, fundamentally, for cars. What they found was real, was replicable, and was also — when examined carefully — more...
This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley of apricots when it comes to climate change reversal, it just keeps getting hotter and the weather wilder. All is not lost though...
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