The Rohingya Crisis Is Also a Climate Story
The humanitarian response continues to be framed almost entirely around protection from persecution, rather than around long-term resilience to recurring environmental shocks.
Environment
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The Grid Was Built for the Past Climate
Historical climate conditions are becoming increasingly unreliable guides for future infrastructure planning.
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World Ocean Day 2026 Advocates for Strong Marine Protected Areas
Boundaries matter only if we enforce them, and if they are put in the right places to begin with.
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Facts Won’t Fix It
Repairing our social fabric means getting on the same page about what moral standards we want to uphold.
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Below the Surface
Introducing a new comics column on fish, people, and the science and politics that connect them.
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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.
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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.