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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 Universal Struggle: Human Rights in a Fractured World

Human rights face an existential crisis in 2025. Despite 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that "all human beings are...

The Human Blueprint: What the World Values in an Age of Upheaval

Listen to the main concepts in this article in our Deep Dive. The Data-Driven Map of Human Values: From Survival to Self-Expression What does it...

Pacifism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Introduction Pacifism, the principled opposition to war and violence as means of settling disputes, has emerged as one of the most significant moral and political...

China’s Cultural Tapestry: Five Millennia of Global Contributions

In the heart of Beijing's Forbidden City, where vermillion walls once separated emperor from subject, tourists from every continent now photograph the same architectural...

Remembering Hiroshima: 80 Years On

Today marks eighty years since the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. As I write this on August 6, 2025, I cannot help but reflect...

Let there be peace in the world

I have been a peace activist since my early teens, over 50 years now, probably haven't tried hard enough it seems! I am publishing...

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