The Infrastructure of Division: How Spatial Polarization Shapes Canada's Future

Canadian urban-rural polarization reveals how infrastructure choices either deepen social divides or create pathways to reconciliation across geographic and cultural boundaries. Read the original article

The Hidden Geography of Nuclear Risk: What Cancer Patterns Reveal About Energy Infrastructure Justice

New research reveals elevated cancer mortality near U.S. nuclear plants, forcing uncomfortable questions about who bears the health costs of our clean energy transitions. Read the original article

The Invisible Legal Infrastructure Governing Commercial Space

Behind sleek rockets and smart satellites lies a reality of zoning maps, lease packets, and regulatory filings—revealing how terrestrial legal frameworks are being stretched to govern extraterrestrial activities. Read the original article

The Invisible Infrastructure: How Nitrogen Flows Shape System Futures

A framework reveals nitrogen's cascading effects across 11 of 17 SDGs, exposing how invisible biogeochemical flows determine infrastructure performance across water, food, and health systems. Read the original article

When Infrastructure Becomes Geopolitical Destiny: China's Space Soft Power in Africa

China's strategic deployment of space infrastructure across Africa reveals how technological 'gifts' can embed particular governance models and dependency relationships that shape continental development trajectories for generations. Read the original article

How AI Infrastructure Decisions Today Will Shape Century-Scale Social Stratification

System dynamics modeling reveals how today's AI infrastructure deployment patterns could lock in socioeconomic stratification for decades, demanding new approaches to anticipatory governance. Read the original article

Mining's Green Theater: When Technical Optimization Masks Extractive Fundamentals

Technical optimization can become a sophisticated form of legitimacy theater, allowing extractive industries to maintain social license while avoiding fundamental questions about extraction itself. Read the original article

The Hidden Infrastructure of Circular Clothing: Scaling Beyond Fashion's Linear Legacy

How scaling circular clothing supply chains exposes fundamental gaps in UK infrastructure systems designed for linear extraction rather than regenerative loops Read the original article

Pharmaceutical Waste Infrastructure: Designing for Intergenerational Health Justice

How do current medication disposal systems embed short-term thinking that threatens long-term public and environmental health? Read the original article

When Healthcare Takes Flight: Rethinking Infrastructure Through Aerial Care Networks

Drone-based healthcare logistics reveal how mobility infrastructure could transcend traditional ground-based networks, challenging assumptions about accessibility and care delivery that have shaped health systems for generations. Read the original article

Asia-Pacific's Resource Efficiency Paradox: When Better Still Isn't Enough

New analysis reveals the gap between resource efficiency gains and absolute sustainability in the world's fastest-growing infrastructure region Read the original article

When Space Infrastructure Becomes Earth's Prison

Scientists warn that cascading collisions in Earth's orbit could halt space launches for decades, threatening trillions in satellite infrastructure that modern civilization depends on. Read the original article