Sarah Borell

Four in five people globally now live in cities. If you're reading this from Sydney, Paris, Copenhagen, or any other urban centre, you already know that cities and nature don't feel like natural bedfellows. Concrete, noise, artificial light, traffic, and a thousand other human impositions make cities seem like the last place wildlife would choose to be. And yet, quietly and increasingly, that's exactly where they are. Wildlife is moving into cities not because cities have become more...

This week, New York City is hosting the largest Climate Week in its history. More than 100,000 people are expected across roughly 1,000 events running from 20 to 27 September alongside the United Nations General Assembly, which brings heads of state and government ministers to the city at the same time. The combination makes this week one of the most concentrated gatherings of climate decision-makers on the planet. For years, the criticism of Climate Week was that it was heavy on energy...

On 16 June 2026, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology officially declared that an El Niño had formed in the Pacific Ocean. NOAA in the United States had made the same call weeks earlier. The forecasts since then have not become more reassuring: models are now showing a 97% chance of the event persisting into early 2027, sea surface temperatures in the central Pacific are already well above normal, and the World Meteorological Organisation expects the event to peak at very strong intensity...