Sustainability and Future

Exploring the origins of networks in ancient empires.

Exploring the origins of networks in ancient empires.

A critical analysis of how the green energy transition is creating new forms of concentrated power across minerals, technology, capital, geopolitics, and social inequality.

Exploring the origins of networks in ancient empires.

Who is responsible for the climate crisis? Discover the science of extreme event attribution, the role of fossil fuel companies in premeditated warming, and what action looks like in a superheated world.

Extreme heat is unraveling global food systems, collapsing marine ecosystems, and enabling the spread of deadly diseases. Explore how planetary heating threatens civilization's foundation.

Humans evolved to thrive in specific temperatures, but the modern world is pushing us beyond our biological limits. Discover how urbanization, heat islands, and systemic inequality widen the thermal divide.

A four-part series examining the heat-driven crisis reshaping human life, ecosystems, and infrastructure — and who pays the price.

Extreme heat is an invisible force reshaping our planet. Explore how the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave revealed the brutality of rising temperatures and their deadly toll on vulnerable populations.

Every tonne of plastic produced carries environmental and health costs that no producer has ever paid. The Plastic Cost Coverage Ratio compares what producers actually pay to the full external cost their production imposes on the environment and on human health — consistently between 0.01 and 0.05, meaning plastic producers capture less than five cents in environmental liability for every dollar of damage their products create.