In July 2025, construction formally began on what will become the largest hydropower project in human history. Located at the great bend of the Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, the Medog hydropower station is planned to generate 60,000 megawatts of electricity once operational, roughly three times the installed capacity of China's Three Gorges Dam and approximately equal to the entire annual power output of the United Kingdom. Illustration by The Geostrata The projected annual gener

The peninsular landscape, for all its towers of glass and extruded steel, presents a grand, architectural mimicry. These cities rise with a sudden, unearned violence from the gray gravel plains, their interiors chilled to a permanent, synthetic spring while the desert outside registers a lethal fifty degrees. To the casual traveler, deceived by the surface of things, it appears as the ultimate triumph of wealth over geography. Illustration by The Geostrata But if you look cl

Global temperatures have soared recently, and the trend has continued till 2024. The alarming temperatures have surpassed the...