IntroductionRecently, I had a long conversation with an AI about the world in 2050.Will America collapse? Will the US and ...
A new Lancet Commission identifies 17 interlinked catastrophic threats to human health and survival by 2100 and sets out a ...
The same future period, under two emission scenarios. Comparing the temperature difference from 1995–2014 using the same ...
Queen Suthida of Thailand, the wife of reigning King Vajiralongkorn since 2019, is a former flight attendant and military ...
But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...
Thomas Piketty, Daron Acemoglu, Dani Rodrik, Branko Milanovic, Mariana Mazzucato, Abhijit Banerjee and Ha-Joon Chang offer ...
During the 2023–2024 El Niño, about 75% of the world's tropical forest areas experienced at least six months of unprecedented ...
A glaciologist reviews a new film covering the ascent of Tenzing Norgay (played by Genden Phuntsok) to the top of Everest in ...
“A physicist has put a definite date on Doomsday,” The New York Times wrote on 4 November 1960. “He calculates that it will come on Friday the Thirteenth in November, 2026 A. D. On that date, or ...
Seventy-three years ago, Tenzing Norgay stood on top of Everest, known as Chomolungma in Tibetan, which roughly translates as "Goddess Mother of the World." ...
In 1960, a paper published in Science offered a grim prediction: the rapidly exploding human population would reach infinity on Friday, November 13, 2026, resulting in the extinction of humankind.
"It is crystal clear to us that fossil fuel dependence is a liability, threatening energy security and economic development ...