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The Darien Gap and Central America Biological Corridor: critical biodiversity hotspots and local adaptations following mass human migration

March 2, 2026February 26, 2026 by Ryan King

The Darien is a hub of extraordinary terrestrial and aquatic diversity, a sanctuary of indigenous communities already devoted to protecting local wilderness, and habitat for endangered Apex predators, including the Harpy Eagle. It also, unfortunately, serves as an example of contemporary environmental and societal threats magnified by large-scale geopolitical changes.

Agrihouse at the Venice Architecture Biennale: cultivating climate resilience through land, water and collective policy

February 25, 2026 by Barbara Giorgi

When farmers, researchers, designers and policymakers work together, farms and bio districts can become true laboratories of resilience – capable of regenerating ecosystems while shaping fairer and more adaptive governance models.

Bus Driver on Mars

February 25, 2026 by Tom Murphy

To live outside of one’s ecological context—and in fact where no ecology of any relevance exists—would require somehow creating a suitable ecology, or borrowing a sufficiently-complete subset of an existing one that can tolerate a completely novel setting for which the beings are not adapted.

The EU confirms: it’s time for STRATEGIC adaptation

February 25, 2026 by Rupert Read

Deep as we now are, tragically, in the age of consequences, only a more deeply deliberately transformative effort at responding smartly to the damage that is here and preparing for the unpredictably worse damage that is to come has any chance of being sufficient.

The Youth Movement in a Post-Growth World

February 24, 2026 by Adel Ramdani

We need all hands on deck to ideate new ways to equip the Youth Movement with a holistic, radical approach. To generate systemic change, young activists must be brave in their criticism of capitalism and growth. Unfortunately, they must also get comfortable with doubt, not knowing exactly what tomorrow will look like.

Wide Boundary News: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge

February 24, 2026 by Nate Hagens

This week’s Frankly is another edition of Nate’s Wide Boundary News series, where he invites listeners to view the constant churn of headlines through a wider-boundary lens. Today’s edition features reflections on renewable energy and CO2 emission trends, updates on species adaptability, and a discussion about nuclear treaties and Iran.

Ice Breaking and Orchard Thoughts

February 24, 2026 by Eliza Daley

Keep records. Learn the new patterns — if there are any. Because the challenge we will be facing for decades to come is a seeming lack of pattern, and we humans don’t do well in random time.

Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers

February 23, 2026 by Nate Hagens

In this week’s Frankly, Nate looks at how aggregate human behavior changes as groups scale from small tribes to large and complex societies. He uses the framing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde throughout the episode to illustrate how traits that once helped small groups survive can serve to destabilize complex societies when expanded globally.

Regenerative agriculture: what works, works

February 23, 2026 by Gunnar Rundgren

Some thirty years ago, one of the organic pioneers, Carl Haest, said about sustainable agriculture, “friend in the field, foe in the market”. That seems to hold also for regenerative agriculture.

Lessons from the “Poor Man’s Cow”

February 20, 2026 by Shane Casey

Shane has been busy with the next generation on and off the farm too, visiting schools with a herd of Old Irish Goats. Once a common sight in the Irish countryside, this rare native breed is helping to revive a cultural heritage that has lessons to teach us today, on biodiversity, wildfire management, and the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.

Building a Climate-Resilient MENA: Integrating Natural Cycles for Strategic Stability

February 20, 2026 by El Habib Ben Amara

A climate doctrine must integrate resource mobilization, agricultural modernization, energy diversification, and territorial planning within a coherent framework—one that anticipates rather than reacts, protects rather than repairs, and organizes rather than fragments.

Widening the We: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense

February 20, 2026 by Colin Greer

Building an inclusionary common sense will take an understanding of the relationship between our social history, our experience of inclusionary social policies, and the opposing psychosocial dynamic that promotes a readiness to scuttle the gains those policies produced through a belonging based on fear and threat.