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Gaia’s Great Turning: A 50-Year Climate Reversal Blueprint (2025–2075. Updated)

This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley...

The Friction of Progress: Why the Global Climate Transition is Catching Up to Markets, but Lagging Behind the Earth

In May 2026, the international climate arena presents a striking paradox. It is alive, highly active, and structurally transformed, yet it remains profoundly underpowered...

London. Clean Air, Congestion, and Retrofit Burdens

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 6 London has done something that most cities only talk about: it has used road pricing to change behaviour at...

Greening Oslo: Discipline of the Possible

How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter streets — and why even Oslo is not yet a finished green city Standfirst Oslo...

Epitaph for the Christmas Island Shrew

News in brief — 10 October 2025 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has officially declared the Christmas Island shrew (Crocidura trichura) extinct,...

From Oasis to Desert: The Environmental Catastrophe of the Aral Sea

Abstract A cautionary tale for our times, this essay examines the environmental catastrophe of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth-largest lake, which has lost...

The Continent’s Veins: A Diagnosis of Australian Rivers and Estuaries

The essay begins with the memory of two rivers: one pulsing with life, the other choked with death. The diagnosis for many of Australia’s...

Farewell Dame Jane Goodall, Pioneer Who Redefined Humanity

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, the English zoologist, primatologist and anthropologist has passed away. Considered the world's foremost expert on...

Through Compound Eyes: Song of a Honey Bee

The world fractures into a thousand hexagonal truths through my compound eyes, each facet catching ultraviolet psalms that your kind cannot fathom. I see...

The Ecological Crisis of Bee Decline: Nature’s Pollinators at the Brink

My wife and I are urban beekeepers with 3 hives that keep us and friends and family in honey most years. As I write...

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