David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

The U.S. leads China in only six of the 36 countries surveyed.

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Exclusive: António Guterres says world’s accounting systems should place true value on the environment

Construction of a new neighborhood is set to begin in Utrecht next week. The neighborhood, called Merwede, is scheduled to be the largest car-free district in the Netherlands, with 6,000 homes. The ar...

Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products

New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

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There’s much more to do, but we should be encouraged by the progress we have made

Thousands of landfills across Europe lie in flood-risk zones, areas which could endanger drinking water or sensitive conservation sites, Investigate Europe and Watershed Investigations can reveal in t...

Will AI take all our jobs? Prevent all crimes from being committed? Or finally develop skills beyond that of a trainee copywriter? Here are television’s finest depictions of our imminent future…

The most intriguing robots aren’t built to work, but to make us imagine other worlds.

Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

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Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

In 2021 a survey asked 10,000 young people in ten countries how they felt about climate change. 75% said the future was frightening and 55% thought humanity was doomed. "People are not excited about the future any more," notes design futurist Sarah Housley, and that has consequences. Without a vision for the future, it's hard to summon the will to change what's broken and create anything better.

Rumours of the metaverse's demise are greatly exaggerated – particularly when it comes to designing virtual buildings, writes Sarah Housley.

Solarpunk began as a sci-fi vision of a beautiful, sustainable planet. Now it inspires Hollywood movies and real-life tech. Can it change the world?

New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023

OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.

Societies can be united and inspired by ideas of the future. We urgently need more of them, argues futurist Sarah Housley

Though over half of us think humanity is doomed, if we can imagine a better future, we can start to move towards it.

Author and campaigner Emily Buchanan and futures expert Sarah Housley blend storytelling and strategy to inspire climate action and resilience. Buchanan’s

In his new book, The Anthropocene Illusion, photographer Zed Nelson reflects on the surreal environments created as people destroy nature, yet crave connection to it

Plant-based meats have been viewed at times as ultraprocessed and possibly unhealthy. But some experts believe they deserve a second look.

Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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The robots are leaving Amazon’s warehouses.

Fiction is becoming an increasingly influential part of futures thinking. By creating ‘ruptures in reality’, we can connect imagination and roleplay to action and systemic change.

Digital twins offer humankind the ability to command virtual replicas of forests, oil fields, cities, supply chains — and even, maybe one day, our very bodies.