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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...

Personal Rewilding: An Antidote to the Unquiet Cage

We are animals built for the wild, yet we live in a state of profound containment. The glow of the screen is our new sunrise....

South Asia Wilderness – Sacred Groves to Tiger Reserves

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent The tiger's roar echoed through sal forests stretching from the Brahmaputra to the Indus, a distance of 3,000 kilometers unbroken...

Europe’s Biodiversity: A Continent at a Crossroads

Listen to our short audio summary to get a sense of this article The Fading Echo of a Wilder Europe Europe, to the modern eye,...

The Atomic Bodhisattva: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Joanna Macy

“Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world.” Joanna Macy Although our...

Oceania: Island Arks and Continental Extremes

Oceania’s extremes—deserts, islands, glaciers—face climate peril but offer global hope through Indigenous wisdom, restoration, and bold conservation.

African Wilderness: A Brief Survey of the 3 Distinct Regions Across a Vast Continent

Africa’s wilderness shrank from 92% to under 50% due to colonization, extraction, and climate change—yet community-led conservation offers hope for recovery.

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