Kevin Parker

Haiku for the Bison of the Great Plains Thunder in the grass— Earth remembers how to breathe, Hooves drum dawn awake. Wind through sacred mane, Ghost herds stir beneath the moon— Prairie heart still beats. Brown mountain of life, You carry the soul of land— Sky bows to your step. Thunder of the Land I am the slow...

Southeast Asia’s forests face collapse from deforestation, palm oil, and climate change—urgent action could still save this biodiversity hotspot.

I am the whisper before the storm, the golden thread woven through acacia shadow, the living arrow that the savanna draws and releases in a single, sacred breath. They call me cheetah—*Acinonyx jubatus*—but I am older than names, more ancient than the human tongue that tries to...

I do not remember a beginning, for my memory is not stored in the soft pulp of a single brain but is etched in the frost of the mountainside, in the marrow of my ancestors, and in the silver disc of the moon that calls me to wakefulness.

I am born dying, and this is not tragedy—it is scripture. In the cathedral of leaves where light spills through in honeyed pillars, I unfurl wings still wet with the waters of becoming. Each scale upon these membranes, too small for your eyes to count, is a prayer...

Introduction to a New Legal Paradigm The global environmental crisis, characterized by accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and mass pollution, has exposed the limitations of conventional legal frameworks designed to protect the natural world.1 In response, a transformative legal and jurisprudential movement known as the "Rights of Nature"...

The UN remains vital: a universal forum enabling peace, aid, climate action and global rules, despite veto limits, funding gaps and needed reforms

Executive Summary Ecotourism has emerged as a dominant and rapidly growing segment of the global tourism industry, presented as a sustainable alternative to the often-destructive impacts of mass tourism. This report addresses the fundamental question of whether ecotourism is "good or bad" by moving beyond a simplistic binary...

As we step into 2026, the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is marked by a growing resistance in the Global South against the extractive practices of Western AI firms. This resistance is not just about data exploitation but also about the economic and cultural impacts on...

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. Her augmented eyes adjust focus automatically, syncing with an AI assistant that anticipates her thoughts. A bio-printed heart...

I. The View from January: The Permian Competition Begins The sun rises on 2026, and the hangover from the AI industry’s wildest quarter yet is palpable. If 2023 was the year of shock, defined by the visceral realization that machines could mimic human fluency, and 2024 was the...

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. Her words suggest that kindness is not a shallow pleasantry or a fleeting emotion, but a profound, elemental force that emerges from the...