The Ocean's Vanishing Wealth
The world's fish populations stand at a critical juncture, caught between ecological collapse and conservation hope. With 37.7% of assessed marine...
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Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung stand as monumental figures in the...
This piece is by way of tribute to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. I was privileged to meet him in the mid-1990s when I was National Campaign Director of the Australian Wilderness Society and we convened a conference on Tibetan Wilderness (an idea conceived by activist Chris Doran) held in Sydney, Australia. It was a honor to speak on the same platform as this extraordinary human being who exemplifies compassion and consistency of purpose. This extended article looks back on his life, philosophies and his ongoing contribution to advancing peace, compassion and kindness as a mantra for everyday living.
Human rights face an existential crisis in 2025. Despite 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that "all human beings are...
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This report provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of pranayama, the yogic science of breath regulation. It synthesizes the philosophical underpinnings from classical texts, traces...
Introduction: The Enduring Altar of the Automobile
In the early 1990s, I wrote a searing critique of modern transport policy in which I depicted the...
Introduction
The rapid evolution of drone technology has fundamentally transformed multiple sectors of human activity, from military operations to medical delivery, agricultural management to urban...
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, to put it another way, for AI to reach a point of Singularity, a hypothetical point where artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence and...
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 17
For a decade, the Lombard capital has captured the global imagination with photogenic vertical forests and promises of millions of new trees. Yet beneath the canopy lies the Po Valley—one of...
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 that researchers have since termed an Anthropocene moment.1 It was a period when the theoretical abstractions of climate modeling collided with the tactile...
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 organised by stationery. Afghanistan sits near Albania. Tuvalu speaks into the same record as the United States. Delegates rise, denounce, defend, abstain and...
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