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.
Ryan Orbuch argues for a foundation model trained on the planet itself. An audacious, fundable ask, well made; what it glosses over is that the challenge is social before it is technical, and that there will be many models, not one.
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.
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.
A scenario stub for accelerated surface warming in the Middle East and North Africa, grounded in Malik et al. 2024.
A baseline folder exists in orbital-sim. Nothing further is written yet.