How Digital Surveillance Is Reshaping the Law of the Sea
Maritime governance is shifting from physical oversight to data-driven systems, a profound change that raises questions about enforcement, due process and sovereignty.
Environment
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Project Hail Mary Tells a True Story About Humanity’s Past and Future
Changes in solar environments could pose serious risks to modern life.
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Not All Hungers Are the Same
On the Papuan plantation frontier, industrial oil palm concessions are creating new ways of thinking about hunger: as a force that haunts, as a form of shame, as a source of anger.
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To Save the Deep Sea, We Need Fewer Batteries
Instead of extracting critical minerals from the seafloor to fuel batteries, we could reduce, reuse, and recycle batteries we already have.
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What Past Energy Transitions Can Teach Us
New forms of energy drove prosperity between 1880 and 1930, not tariffs and immigration restrictions.
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Green Energy Can Transform the Middle East
Oil may facilitate conflict in the Middle East, but it clearly isn’t the only cause of it, and it may not be the most important.
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An Optimist’s Guide to Climate Action
Now is not the time to stop saying the words “climate change.” Instead, double down on science and communicate the benefits of climate solutions.
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Investing in Gold Is Causing Irreparable Harm to Earth’s Wild Places
As miners seek to profit on the high price of gold by dredging remote tributaries, rural communities struggle to preserve their forests and rivers.
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It’s Time to FLIP the Script on Climate Action
Addressing climate change has been framed as an expensive obligation with delayed benefits. But what if it saved us money and made us healthier right now?
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An Open Letter from Authors of the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
Twenty-eight scientists say political pressure to remove a chapter on climate science in a manual for judges is a troubling turn for other disciplines, too.