Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato

Marcus Maeder, Miriam Quick & Duncan Geere discuss the emergence of data sonification as a powerful tool in raising public awareness of climate change.

80 climate startup pitch decks on my desktop. 58 claim they will be doing things at scale. Most of the rest have similar goals. Typically in some variation of “decarbonising [industry] at sca…

An important new paper lays out the importance and complexities of ensuring increasingly advanced AI-based assistants are developed and used responsibly

The toymaker has announced a new annual KPI to encourage all salaried employees to help the company lower emissions across its factories, stores and offices...

Nature - Solving problems in a safe, collaborative environment can help us think out of the box and build empathy — crucial skills in a warming world.

It's ok to not be ok

So. Much. Scenius.

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.

The Climate Psychology Alliance shares the challenges of addressing eco-distress in our current mental health paradigm.

In the French Alps, writer and philosopher Simon Parcot teaches us about the connection between mind and feet.

Less is more...human

The need for discernment is amplified when generative AI enables anyone to create anything. Creative skills will still be necessary to produce superior designs.

The theme for this year's Met Gala is supposed to celebrate circular fashion. But TikTok’s sponsorship of the event sent mixed messages.

Researchers find instances of systems double-crossing opponents, bluffing, pretending to be human and modifying behaviour in tests

A new worldview is emerging, and it’s much richer, more meaningful, and more beautiful than the thinking that currently dominates our societies. I’m talking about planetarism, or what some also call planetarity.

Exclusive: Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds

Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

When I was in grad school in the 1990s, we talked about “surviving the AI winter.” Explosive, transformative progress in AI had been…

Ruhi Khan, ESRC researcher at the LSE, argues that as companies increasingly use artificial intelligence and people gravitate towards relying on large language model chatbots like ChatGPT for ubiqu…

In the DRC, demand for cobalt to power electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies is leaving behind a toxic legacy.

Simple steps to take before hitting the streets

Feminism has reached a dead end. It’s time to embrace a matriarchy.

Do you stick to a set schedule, or have a looser relationship to the clock? It can affect more than how you plan your day

Improve digital product and service sustainability claims in the face of changing legislation with this digital greenwashing guide.

How the field of product design lost its way — and how it can find its way back

Facebook is the zombie internet, where a mix of bots, humans, and accounts that were once humans but aren’t anymore interact to form a disastrous website where there is little social connection at all.

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

Tuning into a magic that flows from the universe, not from an individualized self, Tyson Yunkaporta offers lucid insight into the current state of the world in this week’s episode. In maddening times of dissonance and disconnection, Tyson speaks to the need for the Right Story, for LORE. As he dives