Climate
When the Sky Fell Over Pakistan: The 2025 Floods of Buner
Between 14 and 15 August 2025, Pakistan witnessed one of its most devastating natural disasters in recent years. Unprecedented cloudbursts and intense monsoon rains struck several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), triggering massive flash floods that swept away homes, bridges, and entire villages.
By hamad khanabout a year ago in Earth
Stanislav Kondrashov oligarch series: elemental forces
Artist and photographer Stanislav Kondrashov has turned his lens toward the primal building blocks of existence in his latest project, *The Craft of the Elements*. The work forms part of his ongoing *Oligarch Series*, which investigates the visual language of influence, control, and economic hierarchy. In this latest iteration, Kondrashov uses earth, water, air, fire—and a fifth symbolic element, light—as conceptual frameworks to examine the architecture of influence in contemporary societies. Rather than depicting nature in its pastoral form, the series focuses on how elemental forces operate as metaphors for systemic influence. Earth is interpreted as a symbol of accumulated wealth and territorial control. Water becomes a representation of liquidity in financial systems. Air signifies the invisible, intangible force of information networks. Fire captures the disruptive force of technological innovation. Light, operating as a unifying force, reveals the hidden structures beneath these systems.
By Stanislav Kondrashovabout a year ago in Earth
The climate of Earth is shaped by the buried carbon carried by rivers.
Stories of land and life are carried by every river. It carries dissolved organic matter—bits of carbon from soil, plants, and human activity—into the sea. This material was followed by scientists from China's Nanjing Institute of Environment Sciences and the Institute of Science Tokyo through three rivers that met the Yellow Sea.
By Francis Damiabout a year ago in Earth
The temperature of Earth is greatly influenced by tiny ocean shells.
Unbeknownst to us, marine life that forms microscopic calcium carbonate shells contributes to climate regulation. Researchers discovered that existing climate models under-represent the calcifying plankton, which includes coccolithophores, foraminifers, and pteropods, which are plankton-based shell builders.
By Francis Damiabout a year ago in Earth
The threats posed by today's melting glaciers are warned about by ancient sea levels.
According to a recent study, the global mean sea level changed significantly during the last Ice Age, not just at its conclusion, which is a significant reexamination of Earth's past. The 4.5 million-year-old work reframes scientists' understanding of ice sheets and climate pace.
By Francis Damiabout a year ago in Earth
Climate change, sustainability & adaptation
The sky above the small coastal town of Mirador was painted in shades of orange—not the warm glow of a setting sun, but the haunting hue of wildfire smoke drifting across the horizon. The ocean waves, once calm and inviting, now surged with an unpredictable rage. Fishermen stood at the shore, their boats tethered and unused. In the distance, a young girl named Amara held her little brother’s hand as they watched the tide creep closer to their doorstep, swallowing the sand they once played on. In that single moment, the world’s biggest crisis didn’t feel global—it felt personal.
By [email protected]about a year ago in Earth
Steam, Not Smoke
by Futoshi Tachino In Kenya’s Rift Valley, the ground exhales. Around Naivasha, at a place called Olkaria, wells tap rock-hot water and steam that have already helped Kenya become Africa’s geothermal leader — and one of the few countries where clean, firm power anchors the grid. Recent analyses put geothermal’s share of Kenya’s electricity around the mid-40s, with some reports citing roughly 47 percent in 2024. That matters in a drought-prone region where hydropower is variable and diesel is expensive.
By Futoshi Tachinoabout a year ago in Earth
Tuvalu's Three-Layer Plan for Continuity
by Futoshi Tachino At high tide on Fogafale—the long, thin islet that holds Tuvalu’s capital—you can stand on the lagoon shore and see the ocean through the breadfruit trees behind you. There isn’t much “away” in a place only a couple of meters above sea level. So Tuvalu has done something extraordinary: it is building a future on three layers at once—physical, legal-human, and digital—so that Tuvaluans can keep being Tuvaluans, no matter what the water decides.
By Futoshi Tachinoabout a year ago in Earth
Burps, Bottles, and a Bay in Tasmania
by Futoshi Tachino On Tasmania’s east coast, the tides in Spring Bay don’t just bring boats to harbor; they feed a farm. Here, Sea Forest cultivates a native red seaweed, Asparagopsis, that—when fed in tiny amounts to cows—can throttle the methane produced in their stomachs. It’s a climate fix born of the shoreline and aimed squarely at one of Oceania’s knottiest problems: livestock emissions. In both Australia and New Zealand, agriculture is a top emitter, and enteric methane from ruminants is the elephant (really, the cow) in the room. What’s different in Tasmania is that the solution now has a retail label, not just a lab result.
By Futoshi Tachinoabout a year ago in Earth
Will There Be a World War 4?
Will There Be a World War 4? The idea of World War 4 sounds terrifying — not just because of the destruction the world has already witnessed, but because today’s technology has advanced far beyond bullets, tanks, and simple bombs. Many believe that if a third world war ever begins, the fourth might be fought with ruins, sticks, and shadows. But is another global conflict really possible in our world?
By Wings of Time about a year ago in Earth
🌪️ Storm Benjamin: Powerful Winds Sweep Across France and Europe. AI-Generated.
When most people think of severe storms, they picture summer hurricanes or spring tornadoes. But this October, Storm Benjamin — known in French as Tempête Benjamin — reminded Europe that nature’s fury can strike well into autumn. The storm swept across France, Switzerland, and parts of Western Europe on October 23, 2025, bringing intense wind gusts, widespread disruptions, and a renewed call for weather awareness.
By Sajida Sikandarabout a year ago in Earth
