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Spend enough time in long-termist circles, and somebody will tell you a story about trees. What is it about trees and long-term thinking? There are plenty of inert objects that last beyond our lifetimes and […]

How Early Megacities Emerged From the Jungles of Cambodia and how instability, climate, and neglect drove their slow collapse. When I arrived in Phnom Penh during Cambodia’s dry season in January, I stumbled through the […]

Following his own success in creating a lush oasis in the middle of the desert, Goran N’Diaye is now training the next generation of young Senegalese farmers. Goran N’Diaye is a pioneer in sustainable farming […]

The Guardian’s biodiversity editor looks back on a year that put the state of the planet on the agenda in ways no one could have foreseen. The year 2020 was always destined to be a […]

From raging wildfires to a pending shift on U.S. climate action, the year was a notable one for climate change. Though the coronavirus pandemic has been a defining story of 2020, the year has been […]

Using rockets and pickup trucks, Chinese officials are seeding clouds and bringing the rain. Last month, 16 “artificial rain enhancement rockets” were launched off the back of a pickup truck 300 miles south of Beijing. […]

It may have seemed far-fetched a decade ago, but clean energy has already passed its economic tipping point. A 2019 report from the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute found that it was cheaper to build and […]

On December 21 — coincidentally the winter solstice — the two largest planets in our solar system will appear to almost merge in Earth’s night sky. During the event, Jupiter and Saturn will sit just […]