Global Trajectories from 30,000 feet… The future of STEM, Education, and Healthcare… On Oil, Africa, and the Arabian Peninsula... On China...
America
As Tijuana’s Sewage Crisis Routinely Shuts Down the Beaches at Coronado and Turns the Water Orange, US Officials Ponder How to Fix It The lifeguard truck moves slowly along the hard sand in front of the Hotel del Coronado, loudspeaker on, telling swimmers to get out of the water.
China
In October 2025, a Chinese train hit 453 kilometers per hour in pre-service trials on the Shanghai-Chengdu corridor. It was the fastest a wheel-on-rail vehicle had ever moved in testing. The CR450 will enter commercial service on the Beijing-Shanghai line later this year at 400
Building the Future
Before you can enter the building, you have to be cooked. Not literally, but close enough. Visitors to the world's tallest pig farm, a 26-story tower on the southern outskirts of Ezhou, a mid-sized city in China's Hubei province, must pass through a sealed
World
In 1980, in a remote field in Elbert County, Georgia, a man who called himself R.C. Christian commissioned a massive granite monument inscribed in eight languages with ten commandments for the post-apocalyptic survivors of civilization. The structure, which would come to be called the Georgia Guidestones and nicknamed
World
In 1898, the great cities of the Western world sent their best urban planners to London for the first international planning conference in history. The crisis on the agenda was horse manure. New York City alone was producing 2.5 million pounds of it a day. The delegates were not
World
While it now appears that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen, the impact from its closure will ripple across the world for years to come. One positive consequence of the United States' war in Iran is that the world is finally building its way out of one of the
Cities
See our accompanying feature on Al Duqm at New Cities Atlas. Fifteen years ago, Al Duqm was a fishing settlement on Oman's southeastern Arabian Sea coast with a population of around 6,000 people, a stretch of coastline and a geography that strategists had been quietly noting for
World
Ninety percent of everything you own arrived by sea. The phone in your pocket, the coffee in your cup, the fuel in your car, the clothes on your back: almost all of it crossed an ocean in a steel hull before it reached you. Maritime trade is the circulatory system
30K Insights
Nearly two decades removed from the Great Recession and five years on from the global pandemic, America is gaining perspective on the impacts. Nowhere is this truer than within the urban planning profession, where we’ve gotten a reality check about rhetoric which once predicted the birth of a new
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Poor generation Z. Amid a time of cultural tumult, unprecedented social media and scars from the pandemic, one of the more battered generations in recent memory are the inheritors of our future challenges. They are also ever our cultural curiosity. Every few days another article lending another attempt at cultural
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It’s hardly news to the residents of central Ohio, where it has been splashed across the front pages for weeks, but Intel recently selected the city of New Albany, Ohio as its selected future home for a new $20 billion semiconductor chip factory, an investment Intel has framed as
Africa
Do oil and water mix? Kavango East is an unrivaled repository of oil and fresh water in Africa. Botswana and Namibia are positioned to benefit from it. Could it catalyze a future greater than even they yet realize? Capital Frontiers investigates. The Lightning in a Bottle Equation It is among