16 articles
In the Swiss Alps, under tonnes of granite, billions of euros sleep in converted military bunkers. How did a small country turn discretion into a global empire?
Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of the 10th US president born in 1790, died in 2025. Three generations, 235 years: a dizzying genealogical record.
How Malian librarians saved a thousand-year-old treasure from jihadist flames. The heroic story of Africa's memory.
LiDAR reveals cities of 100,000 inhabitants under the canopy. The Amazon was never a virgin forest — it was a garden.
In 1909, a German chemist synthesized ammonia from air. This discovery would allow Germany to manufacture explosives without Chilean mines — and prolong World War One by several years.
Coffee, tulips, and trade routes: 600 years of forgotten connections. How an empire linked three continents before the word 'globalization' existed.
Thirteen days of strikes. Tehran threatens to set the region ablaze. A look at the deep reasons behind a conflict reshaping the Middle East.
The world's largest ocean is shrinking by two centimeters per year. In 300 million years, it will be gone — swallowed by tectonic plates. The most epic geological story ever told.
Palm Jumeirah sinks 5 to 10 mm per year. The World is 95% abandoned. And Dubai launches an island twice the size. The geological, economic and climate story of the Persian Gulf's artificial islands — and what they reveal about our relationship with risk.
In 1569, Mercator published a revolutionary world map for navigators. But its major geographic distortion would shape our view of the world for nearly five centuries. The story of a useful lie that became universal truth.
From Ethiopia to the Enlightenment, from the slave trade to fair trade: how a seed reshaped the world.
Climate change threatens 5% of global trade. Lake Gatún is emptying, ships are queuing, and the world is searching for alternatives.
In the midst of conflict with Iran, Washington partially lifts sanctions on Russian oil. A paradox that reveals the fragility of the global energy market.
33 kilometers wide, 20% of the world's oil. Iran is disrupting navigation in the Strait of Hormuz and threatening the planet's energy supply.
Third year of stagnation, auto industry in crisis, energy too expensive: Germany cannot restart its economic machine. All of Europe is feeling the consequences.
Polluted aquifers, summer droughts, winter floods: Europe's water crisis is the silent crisis that could become the political issue of the decade.