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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 Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

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...

The Large Language Model Landscape of February 2026

The Permian competition tightens: pruning, agentic browsers, and the energy bill becomes law. February 2026 doesn’t feel like a month of flashy invention. It feels...

The Global South and the Fight Against “Extractive” AI

As we step into 2026, the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is marked by a growing resistance in the Global South against the...

The Large Language Model Landscape of January 2026: 10 Predictions for the Year of the “Doing” Engine

I. The View from January: The Permian Competition Begins The sun rises on 2026, and the hangover from the AI industry’s wildest quarter yet is...

The Hollow Manger: The Christmas Myth and the Crisis of Connection

Some might see this as a bit of Bah! Humbug! article and in truth I did think twice about publishing it, after all Christmas...

The Large Language Model Landscape in December 2025

How 2025 ends with an open-source surge, sovereign models, and a hard look at AI’s physical footprint. In the first days of December 2025, the...

Labor–Greens Deal: A New Era for Australia’s Environment Laws

CANBERRA — For a quarter of a century, the silence of the Australian bush—broken only by the crash of falling timber and the quiet...

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