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Basic standard of living for everyone no longer sustainable

September 12, 2024/by insnet editor

To sustain even a basic standard of living for everyone, we need to dramatically change our economic systems and technologies, new research reveals.

The Great Unraveling: the world is falling apart in the polycrisis

June 30, 2023/by insnet editor

After an addictive period of progress and as the result of several, mutually reinforcing crises, in the Great Unraveling the world is falling apart both ecologically and socially. That process now has a name: polycrisis.

2022, the year of dehumanization

December 12, 2022/by insnet editor

Chances are that 2022 will go down in the books as the end of European peace after WWII. It was an era of humanity. But in 2022, dehumanization set in.

When Forest Fire Isn’t an Accident: The Rise of Arson-Linked Wildfires
Wildfires are usually blamed on drought, lightning, or human carelessness. But a string of recent, high-profile blazes in North America and Europe has investigators pointing to something more deliberate. From California's scorched hillsides to the forests outside Paris, prosecutors and fire officials have been building arson cases against individuals accused of deliberately setting some of the most destructive fires in recent memory.
The sun disappears in minutes over Europe: the first total eclipse over Iceland since 1954
On August 12, the moon passes over the sun and parts of Europe go dark for over two minutes. Iceland sees its first total solar eclipse since 1954 — a rarity that won't return until 2196
Reactor Heat Becomes Fuel: India Opens World’s First Nuclear-Powered Hydrogen Plant
On June 26, 2026, India's Department of Atomic Energy opened a facility in Kalpakkam that produces hydrogen using heat from a nuclear reactor. With this, India is taking a new step toward large-scale, fossil-free hydrogen and aims to scale up the technology later.