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WHEN DESTROYING NATURE BECOMES A CRIME: THE ECOCIDE REVOLUTION

On 25 January 2019 a tailings dam collapsed at Brumadinho, Brazil, killing 272 people. Nearly eight years on, no court has decided whether anyone is guilty. The first article in a ten-part investigation into ecocide asks whether the gravest destruction of nature should be a crime, and how far the law has come.

The Price of Admission: Toxic Masculinity, the Evidence Behind the Phrase, and What it Would Take to Build Something Better

Toxic masculinity has become a slogan, an insult and a tripwire. This Dossier strips the phrase back to its evidence: which norms harm, who pays, and why condemnation alone cannot compete with the grievance machine.

Who Owns the Night? The Risks of Selling Sunlight After Dark

Can orbiting mirrors sell sunlight after dark? Investigating Reflect Orbital’s plans and the risks to wildlife, climate, astronomy and the night sky.

Give What You Command: Christianity and the Love that is Ordered

Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift

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...

Nature Positive November 2025: Inside Australia’s Historic Environmental Law Overhaul

Executive Summary In November 2025, the Australian Parliament enacted a transformative suite of environmental legislation, fundamentally reshaping the Commonwealth’s approach to biodiversity conservation, project assessment,...

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