Breaking the Cycle

The future of reproductive health in India, from early ideas about population control to on-the-ground interventions happening now, to a world where men and women share contraceptive responsibility.
Hannah Harris Green

Isla del Encanto

Puerto Ricans have always found opportunity in the limits placed upon them. Exploring the island’s agricultural future–from community gardens to research hubs, bakers to growers to distillers.
Alicia Kennedy

Fowl Plague

Pandemics have threatened humanity in the past–and avian influenza may well be the next one due.
Duncan Geere

Beats: Space

Space is where we project our dreams–and our nightmares–of the future.

Beats: Food

Food structures our day, and food systems shape our world

Beats: Disability

“Disable” is an active verb, and disability describes the social and environmental barriers that prevent access just as much as an individual body’s physical reality.

Beats: Health

Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook; within a doctor’s office, many factors affect the quality of treatment.

A picture of the night sky, very starry

Losing the Night Sky

The brightest parts of the world are getting brighter–light pollution is on the rise around the globe.
Caroline Crampton
2 min read

Mapped: The Shifting Soils of 2100

Climate change will massively redistribute the world’s farmland.
Duncan Geere
1 min read

Top Moments from the 2015 Robot Football World Cup

Highlights from the contest in Hefei, China
Ian Steadman
2 min read