The geoid is an equipotential surface that can be thought of as the shape an ocean surface would take due to the Earth's gravity field. In this visualization the geoid height is greatly exaggerated, b...

A Proxy For Values Informing Action

The Bias Of Experience

El Niño can’t be stopped, but experts say better preparation and climate action could reduce the damage both now and in the future.

A Poem

Seeking A Saving Group

A Group History Of 9/11

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

Bias And The Reality Of Values

Joiner’s Joy Or Remorse

Half of the CO₂ that humans emit into the atmosphere each year is safely recaptured for free by the Earth’s biological and chemical systems. Warming projections rely on this continuing, but will it?

A Group Alone

A Poem

Permaculture Isn’t a Gardening Trend, It’s a Survival Strategy

A global catastrophe most people still don’t know about.

A Simulated History Of The World

Changing Population And Waste

A Navigation Aid

And The Search For Safer “Terrain”

Both Colorado River reservoirs just hit record lows, and the water 40 million people depend on has been running a deficit since 2000.

A Poem

Values And Resources

Every impact of the coming hunger and prediction of where El Niño will do the most harm is already being reported by government scientists, in public, on a schedule that you can follow.

New research is showing that absolute temperature thresholds, like 1.5° or 2°C, are not as important as the warming rate itself. Systems need time to adapt and can fail early if pushed too fast.

What We Can Do

The world’s oceans hit 21.10 degrees Celsius last Saturday, breaking a record set in 2024

The soil seed bank is a vital aspect of biodiversity, helping plants to respond to changes in the environment. This global study shows that the number of seeds and species found in the soil depends on...

What We Think We Know

A book outlines how the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology and philosophy have neglected a key aspect of consciousness: the body.

Planet Formation at Cosmic Dawn: Planetesimals in H2O-rich Disks around Low-mass Stars, Vorobyov, Eduard I., Whalen, Daniel J., Latif, Muhammad A., Skliarevskii, Alexander, Jessop, Christopher, Matsuk...

A 2,000-year Peruvian ice core record of atmospheric CH4 concentrations contains the first historical global CH4 record from the low latitudes, and implementation of a four-box model indicates higher ...

A Poem

New study is among the first to quantify and explain slavery’s influence in contemporary U.S. health disparities

This study shows that bankfull discharge, the flow a river carries before overflowing its banks, recurs at different rates across climate zones, suggesting that the widely used 2-year assumption may b...