Ant Geopolitics
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own John Witfield at Aeon Magazine: It is a familiar story:
The Atlantic Ocean is Headed for a Tipping Point
Once melting glaciers shut down the Gulf Stream, we would see extreme climate change within decades, study shows René van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra, and Michael Kliphuis in The Conversation: Instruments
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Politics in a Burning World: Beyond Mere Survival
Rithika Ramamurthy and Ajay Singh Chaudhary in Non-Profit Quarterly: “Beyond Mere Survival”: A Conversation with Ajay Singh Chaudhary” Rithika Ramamurthy: I want to talk about the central concept of your
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How This Person Challenged Our Understanding of Work, Tech. and Natural World
Costica Bradatan in the TLS: On July 4, 1845, a man from Concord, Massachusetts, declared his own independence and went into the woods nearby. On the shore of a pond
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Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells
“Plants can measure and react to a far broader spectrum of light than we can with our animal eyes, even though they lack a specialized organ for perception.” Asher Elbein
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Should We Attribute All Climate-Related Disasters Only to Global Warming?
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, PhD, Former President of the Republic of Mauritius, argues that the way we urbanize, the resilience of our infrastructure, and how ‘green’ we keep our buildings and landscapes
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Story In Pictures: TWO Rainbows
“A picture is worth a thousand words”, is an adage in multiple languages meaning that complex and sometimes multiple ideas can be conveyed by a single still image, which conveys
How Asia Can Unlock $800 Billion of Climate Financing
A survey of 19 countries in Asia revealed important gaps in data, disclosures, and taxonomies, and that these are exacerbated by inconsistent national climate policies that can promote fossil fuel
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In China, Clean Energy is NOW the Driver of Economic Growth
Adam Tooze at Chartbook: As data from the IEA confirm, the scale of China’s green energy push in the last couple of years dwarfs the much ballyhooed green energy programs
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Ten Key Takeaways From Davos 2024
We have to build new economic models, new businesses and possibly new lifestyles or humanity that are just as good, or even better, than what we have today – Gim
PICS: Kashmir’s Rare Snowless Winter
Auqib Javeed writes on BBC website: This year, things are different: the snow-clad mountains in the region are oddly brown and barren…”This is unprecedented,” says Manzoor Ahmad, 50, who for
Karachi: There’s Something in the Air
Like other cities in Pakistan, Karachi also faces a huge problem of poor solid waste management and air pollution By Dr Heman Das Lohano & Dr Ghamz E Ali Siyal: When one