Inequality, Justice, and Economics
by Raji Jayaraman in 3QuarksDaily: In the last two decades the topic of inequality has entered the public discourse across a broad spectrum of issues, with an urgency that is
WATCH: A Dump in Karachi, The Zero Waste Colony of New Delhi, and…
IRSHAD SALIM – Last week, I watched three different videos shared at three different WhatsApp forums I’m privileged to be a member of. Together they characterize –in my view, the
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Waterlight, the Revolutionary Lantern (Video)
IMAGINEERING: This portable lantern assembled with 100 percent recyclable materials only needs seawater to charge. Half a liter of sea water is transformed into an incredible 45 days of electrical
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The Animal Crisis Is a Human Crisis
The systems that harm animals go hand in hand with systems that harm humans. Combating them requires inter-species solidarity. Alice Crary and Lori Gruen in the Boston Review: Today it
How Insect ‘Civilizations’ Recast Our Place in the Universe
When looking to other creatures for signs of intelligence, insects are rarely the most obvious candidates, but as the historian Thomas Moynihan writes, it wasn’t always so. Thomas Moynihan in Science:
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Qatar: Faster Than We Thought
Omar El Akkado in Orion: I grew up in Qatar, a tiny peninsula off the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. Less than a century ago, before the boom, it was
‘Rivers in Bangladesh Have Vanished Due to the Effect of the Farakka Barrage’
Although flooding has become a routine annual affair in Bangladesh, more than half of its rivers have become unnavigable and many more have vanished, affecting the livelihood of millions in
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Scaling the World’s Largest Urban Vertical Farming Network
In a conversation with McKinsey, Infarm CEO and cofounder Erez Galonska shares his passion and vision to change the way people eat and reflects on his learnings from bringing the
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Human Ingenuity Would Ultimately Rise to the Challenge of Net-Zero Emission
Financed Emissions Threaten Climate Stability Poorer countries and those reliant on fossil fuels are most exposed to the shifts in a net-zero transition, although they have growth prospects as well;
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Global Warming Will Make Record-Breaking Temperatures in India and Pakistan Much More Frequent
Jude Coleman in Nature: Human-induced climate change made the deadly heatwave that gripped India and Pakistan in March and April 30 times more likely, according to a rapid analysis of the event.
Ramez Naam on how to beat Putin, solve climate change, and build the future
Noah Smith’s interview with Ramez Naam, futurist, author, and investor, in Noahpinion: When I want to know what the future is going to be like, I go ask Ramez Naam. Over
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Scientists succeed for first time growing plants in soil from the moon
University of Florida scientists have managed to grow plants in lunar soil for the first time ever, setting the stage for astronauts to potentially grow their own food on the
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