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Pallav Das and Ashish Kothari explain the need for alternative visions to the dominant model of economic development in India, and beyond. Pallav and Ashish are two of the founders of Kalpavriksh, a 40-year Indian NGO focusing on environment and development issues. Contemporary India is going through a perplexingly critical time in its economic development, as it seems that […]

Accountabilities needed for Future Fit Institutions

This could be a powerful new movement to provide some light at the end of what currently seems a very dark passage through which India is moving.

Quantification is particularly seductive in times of global uncertainty. Not surprisingly, numbers, indicators, categorizations, and comparisons are central to ...

How contemporary Native artists are evading recognition and visibility for a more 'speculative indigenous futurism'

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As the first artist to launch an interactive artwork in outer space, Nahum founded KOSMICA to bring a socio-political and artistic lens to space exploration.

Hope Wabuke considers the future of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.

Indigenous experts weigh in on traditional approaches to disaster prevention, humanitarian response, and the coronavirus pandemic.

If you find yourself mourning the loss of the natural world as we once knew it and fearing for the future of the planet you may be experiencing climate grief. It's a form of mourning that's often not validated but psychologists say that needs to change.

COVID-19 has ushered in an era of large-scale government experiments. Through the NextGenGov Asia Summit and our ongoing engagements with…

The living, the dead and the unborn are all here with us: we must respect their interests and their world as much as our own

Co-directors of Wade, an award-winning short film, say what it’s like to imagine a dystopia in your home city and what they hope the film will achieve

New research suggests climate change will cause humans to move in unprecedented numbers. The Times Magazine partnered with ProPublica and data scientists to understand how.

Often overlooked is the degree to which communities as a whole, rather than individuals demonstrate leadership in times of change and crisis. Charismatic individuals come to light in all areas of...

The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us.

At least a quarter of the world’s land area is owned, managed, used or occupied by indigenous peoples and local communities. While nature in these areas is degrading less quickly than in others, the impact of climate and ecosystem change has a direct impact on local livelihoods.

The coronavirus pandemic has deepened the plight of people fleeing war, conflict and persecution. As countries battle to protect their populations and

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the flaws and risks in a supposedly sustainable model of travel. The crisis may push ecotourism advocates to consider new strategies.

If words make worlds, then we urgently need to tell a new story about the climate crisis. Here is one vision of what it could look and feel like to radically, collectively take action.

You have probably seen the headlines “One million species threatened with extinction and humans to blame” and such like. But did you know, the UN study that lead to those headlines analysed the reasons we continue to lose species to extinction, and found a solution?

Handprints on a cave wall, crumbs from a meal: the new science of Neanderthals radically recasts the meaning of humanity

in mexico, comunal: taller de arquitectura has developed a dwelling that avoids the use of bamboo as a structural element.

Money has turned abundance into scarcity. Not money per se, only the kind of money we use today, the kind of money that is evaporating as we speak, money with a very special characteristic that...

Environmental science and conservation news

A new exhibition pairs paintings by Indigenous Australian artists with microscopic images captured by scientists. The parallels, as this gallery of pictures shows, are intriguing.