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Who Owns the Night? The Risks of Selling Sunlight After Dark

Can orbiting mirrors sell sunlight after dark? Investigating Reflect Orbital’s plans and the risks to wildlife, climate, astronomy and the night sky.

Give What You Command: Christianity and the Love that is Ordered

Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift

What Is Owed: Judaism, Islam and the Debt of Kindness

In 1943 a Muslim family in the Albanian mountains hid a Jewish family from the German army, and the whole neighbourhood knew. The code they kept took no interest in what they felt. Judaism and Islam build kindness the same way: as a debt, owed before it is felt, and tested at its edge.

Accra: The Metabolism of Health and Heat

To understand Accra’s ecological metabolism is to trace the flow of water, air, and humanity through a rapidly shifting coastal topography. Positioned on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana’s capital is a delta city grappling with the intersecting forces of breakneck urbanisation, compound flooding, and a warming equatorial climate.

The World of Spiders: Earth’s Eight-Legged Architects

Short on time? Listen to our five-minute summary of the article below. Despite a pervasive public image often tinged with fear and misunderstanding, spiders represent...

Ecocide: Criminalizing the Destruction of Our Shared Home

Criminalizing ecocide: Tracing its evolution, real-world impact, and legal strategies to establish it as an international crime against nature and humanity.

The Tragedy of Avian Flu: Charting the Panzootic That is Redrawing the World’s Flyways

News Update As of late October 2025, the H5N1 avian flu crisis has entered a tense new phase as the autumn bird migration puts Northern...

Epitaph for the Marl: The South-Western Barred Bandicoot

News in brief — October 2025 IUCN has listed the Marl / south-western barred bandicoot (Perameles myosuros) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red...

Epitaph for the Cape Verde Cone Snail

News in brief — October 2025 IUCN has listed the Cape Verde cone snail (Conus lugubris) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red...

Epitaph for the Slender-billed Curlew

News in brief — 11 October 2025 IUCN has officially listed the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) as Extinct (EX) in its Red List update released...

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