Unless we agree to survive, we probably won’t.

Unleashing a migratory crisis on the Planet.

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Unleashing a migratory crisis on the Planet.

“We humans are facing the greatest emergency of our entire million-year existence.”

Hothouse Earth, the state of the planet in which civilisation and possibly even humans can no longer survive, is arriving much faster than predicted, according to new satellite data.

The declaration by 26 US psychiatric doctors that the US President is mad and constitutes a ‘clear and present danger to the world’ understates the case.

The declaration by 26 US psychiatric doctors that the US President is mad and constitutes a ‘clear and present danger to the world’ understates the case.

The dire state of the world's drinking water

Forget AI.

The self-destructive urge of humans to bring down our civilisation and destroy our grandchildren’s future grows stronger by the minute.

Who will unleash the next pandemic?

and the well-worn road to technicide.

In a hundred million years or so, when all our cities, buildings and bones are ground back into bedrock, the sole monument to humanity will be a thin, yellow stratum containing the vast deserts we cre...

"Give me a lever and a place to stand and I will move the Earth" – Archimedes, c 250 BC

A war is quietly being waged against humanity that threatens the security not only of all nations but of the entire planet and all its people.

A war is quietly being waged against humanity that threatens the security not only of all nations but of the entire planet and all its people.

Every year the world tips US$30 trillion’s worth of valuable materials into its garbage tips, waterways, the atmosphere and other dumping grounds.

Every day humans produce more than a megatonne of excrement and then distribute half of it around the Earth without treatment.

Scientific evidence shows humanity has exceeded Earth’s long-term carrying capacity, placing growing strain on the systems that sustain life and increasing the risk of global instability.

As West Asia stumbles towards a ‘small nuclear war’, it is time to evaluate the consequences for the entirety of humanity and the Planet.

The Bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling

A global surge of misinformation – amplified by social media, AI fakery and organised disinformation campaigns – is corroding the foundations of democratic decision-making and public trust.

Arguably, the most dangerous pandemic ever to strike humanity is the plague of deliberate misinformation, mass delusion and unfounded belief which is engulfing 21st Century society.

In what must rate as one of the worst forseeable disasters ever to confront humanity, the remorseless rise in the oceans will menace the homes and livelihoods of a billion people before the end of the...

In one of the more startling side-effects of global warming, the hotter it gets, the more babies are being born female.

Across large parts of the world, water demand now permanently exceeds supply. This is not a temporary crisis but a condition of irreversible scarcity driven by overuse, climate change and population pressure.

The clearest sign that the human population has outrun the Earth’s ability to support us comes when key resources begin to collapse under the unrelenting pressure of our demands.

The corals of the world are telling us something that most government and politicians – whether through corruption, fear or impenetrable ignorance – are unwilling to divulge: our planet is now heating...

The corals of the world are telling us something that most government and politicians – whether through corruption, fear or impenetrable ignorance – are unwilling to divulge: our planet is now heating...

... and what it means for us.

The apocalypse of civilization is now closer than it has ever been in the whole of human history.

Having just achieved the hottest three years in recorded history, humans are well on the way to returning the planet to the ice-free state it experienced when dinosaurs last ruled.

Humanity is facing a compounding crisis driven by population growth, consumption, pollution and power. These interconnected threats cannot be addressed one by one if civilisation is to endure.