Press Release Gland, Switzerland, 7 August 2025 (IUCN) – Poaching of African rhinos has decreased since 2021, but the gains have been offset by other...
In the heart of Beijing's Forbidden City, where vermillion walls once separated emperor from subject, tourists from every continent now photograph the same architectural...
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...
The concept of the multiverse—a reality beyond our own universe—has deep roots in ancient philosophy and religion. Yet it emerged as a scientific hypothesis...
TNC has planted more than 13 million trees in Minnesota since 2005 to benefit people and nature.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – The Nature Conservancy (TNC) announced it planted...
Overview and Historical Context
Drunvalo Melchizedek (born Bernard Perona, 1941) emerged as a pivotal figure in the New Age movement during the late 20th century,...
John Muir (1838-1914) stands as a monumental figure in the American consciousness, a presence as towering and enduring as the granite cliffs of Yosemite...
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...
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 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.
