● live · 2026-09-03
The Long Way Around
Six months into the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, what rerouted, what ran down, and what is gone. Four kinds of loss on four clocks, with the record on one side of today and your levers on the other.
The Futures Desk
All the news that's fit to model.
Computational journalism: standalone, playable models of hard public questions, each on its own site. This is the desk that indexes them.
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● live · 2026-09-02
Who Drinks the River?
The Colorado's paper allocations exceed its water, and the shortfall has to land on someone. Set the river's flow, choose the allocation rule, and the model computes who gets what.
● live · 2026-09-03project
The Farmland Atlas
One person's map of where the ground still works. A weighted index of climate, water, land quality and hazards, projected for 2070 under SSP2-4.5, with overlays for people, access and land use. Click anywhere and read the score.
● live · 2026-09-03project
Harvest2Market
NASA Harvest's open-access platform puts satellite crop conditions, the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, trade relationships and food-security assessments side by side, so a blocked strait, a fertiliser shortfall and next year's rice harvest read as one chain instead of three headlines.
● live · 2026-09-03reading
From birdsong to galaxies
A University of Queensland release on citizen science: reef surveys, wombat tracking, telescope images and health research done by thousands of volunteers, and what it would take to make that work count.
● live · 2026-09-03reading
A life in service of the living Earth
A special issue of The Ecologist on Herbert Girardet, cultural ecologist and co-founder of the World Future Council, who spent decades arguing that economies built on escalating resource use cannot coexist with the planet's limits.
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
After the Soy Moratorium
A voluntary pact from 2006 held soy-driven deforestation in the Amazon near zero. It was abandoned in January 2026. A study in Science projects at least 1.4 million hectares of extra deforestation by 2036.
forestsclimateagriculture
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
The Boomer Exodus
By 2037 there will be more Americans over 75 than aged 55 to 64, a first in modern US history. Who buys the houses a generation sells, and where do prices go when the buyers are a smaller cohort?
housingdemography
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
England's Water
After nearly three months with barely any rain, authorities suspended or restricted water abstraction licences for 1,327 farms. Can a wet island run dry, and what does storage, leakage and abstraction law decide?
wateragriculture
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
IPCC AR6 — Global Warming Scenarios
Energy balance model driven by AR6 SSP CO₂ trajectories. Geographic temperature anomaly from the pre-industrial baseline under four emissions pathways, SSP1-2.6 through SSP5-8.5, 2024 to 2100.
climate
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
Africa / Middle East Warming — 2049
A scenario stub for accelerated surface warming in the Middle East and North Africa, grounded in Malik et al. 2024.
climateheat
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
Rio Grande
Named in the colorado plan as a candidate for the same engine. Nothing written.
water
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
The Last Quiet Places
The 2001 Roadless Rule covers over 58 million acres of national forest; the proposed rollback would open nearly 59 million. Roads are the irreversible variable in a landscape. What do the quiet places hold, and for whom?
landwaterwildlife
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
Tuvalu
A baseline folder exists in orbital-sim. Nothing further is written yet.
climate
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
The Lagoon at Ross Island
Four of the past five summers have brought toxic cyanobacteria blooms to the Willamette in Portland. Researchers say the cause is a man-made lagoon, 120 feet deep from a century of gravel mining, and that restoring the river's flow through it is the fix. What would it take, and who pays?
waterriverscities
○ proposed · 2026-09-03
World Events
Interactive globe showing georeferenced conflict events from GDELT, UCDP, and ACLED. A time slider steps through days; dots sized by severity.
conflict
○ proposed · 2026-05-26
Tenerife Futures
A playful retro exploration of an imagined design conference in 1976 in Tenerife, attended by famous and notable environmentalists, thinkers and designers.
design fictiontransport
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