Kevin Parker

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...

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

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.

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

May 2026 LLM Landscape: AI becomes vital infrastructure, forcing a pivot to narrative ethics as global challengers disrupt Big Tech's oligopoly

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...