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Why Mexico City is Sinking: The Environmental History of a Modern Water Crisis

Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future

The Common Table in a Burning World: Why the United Nations Must Be Revived, Not Abandoned

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...

Los Angeles: Reinventing the Concrete River

Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.

Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while 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...

The art of creating Japanese zen gardens

Japanese zen gardens represent humanity's most refined attempt to distill nature's essence into contemplative spaces that serve both aesthetic and spiritual purposes. These minimalist...

The Urgent Need for the Rapid Expansion of the Global Marine Parks Network

The ocean faces an existential crisis requiring immediate, large-scale protection through marine parks. With 37.7% of fish stocks overfished, 11-14 million tonnes of plastic...

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