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Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

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

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

World Environment Day 2026: Climate Action – Why It’s Still So Hard — and What Works

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.

Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

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

Life on the Edge: How Extremophiles Redefine Biology and Expand Our Cosmic Search

Listen to our Deep Dive for an insight into this article Descend into the crushing, lightless abyss of the Pacific Ocean, where fissures in the...

The Great God Car: Re-evaluating Our Worship of the Car in an Age of Electric Dreams and Climate Crisis

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...

The IUCN Red List: The Urgent Need for Conservation Action

In the autumn of 2024, as the International Union for Conservation of Nature released its latest Red List update, a stark reality confronted the...

Women’s Wisdom on Environmental Philosophy

Women have played pivotal yet often underrecognized roles in shaping environmental philosophy from its inception through contemporary discourse. From Ellen Swallow Richards' pioneering...

From Walden to the World: Transcendentalism Lessons for a Planet in Peril

How Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, and Alcott Illuminate Contemporary Environmental Philosophy Introduction In an era of unprecedented environmental crisis, the philosophical foundations for ecological thinking and...

50% Conservation by 2050: A Survival Pact for BRICS and Australia

Few doubt that as a species we are at a crossroads. We can carry on stumbling along capitalism's blind trajectory as our planet's precious...

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