Climate & Planetary Futures
The Horizon of Survival
Where science, policy, and imagination converge to shape humanity’s response to a changing planet.
The Hidden Extinction at Our Doorstep: Biodiversity Loss in Urban Areas
The accelerating pace of biodiversity loss in urban areas is among the least visible yet most consequential crises of the…
Urban planning for climate resilience: Empowering Cities with Bold Nature-Based Solutions
Urban planning for climate resilience is no longer a theoretical ambition but a vital and bold imperative for cities worldwide….
Renewable Energy Trends 2025: How Today’s Grid Upgrades Shape Tomorrow’s Climate Future
When analysts discuss renewable energy trends 2025, they are pointing to more than new solar panels or offshore turbines. They…
Saltwater Capital: The Next Frontier of Ocean Extraction
In the nineteenth century, the frontier of extraction was coal seams and gold veins. In the twentieth, it was oil…
Weather Futures: How Climate Insurance Is Becoming a Second Economy
When a hurricane makes landfall or a drought stretches into its third year, the damage is measured in lives disrupted,…
Rust Belt Rewilding: When Factories Become Forests
On the edge of Youngstown, Ohio, a factory lot once alive with molten steel now lies quiet, its concrete cracked,…
Heat Islands, Human Costs: Why Cities Are the New Climate Epicenters
Step onto a downtown street in July, and you can feel it: the shimmer of heat radiating off asphalt, the…
The Heat Map Divide: Why Urban Cooling Is the Next Civil Rights Battle
In the summer of 2023, Phoenix endured 31 consecutive days above 110°F. The headlines focused on broken records. The overlooked…
Timber Towns at Twilight: Can Forest Economies Survive Without Trees?
On a chilly morning in Oregon’s Cascades, the sawmill whistle that once punctuated daily life is silent. The mill gates…
Climate Refuge in Reverse: Why Some Regions Will Gain Population as Others Collapse
When we hear the phrase “climate refugees,” the image is almost always one of departure—families fleeing rising seas, farmers abandoning…
After the Harvest: Farming Communities in the Age of Perpetual Wildfire
On the edge of California’s Central Valley, the fields are golden and dry by late summer, a brittle patchwork stitched…
The Cloud Paradox: How Shifting Skies Complicate Climate Predictions
When we talk about global warming, we often imagine a steady rise in temperatures—like turning up a thermostat. But in…