Priya Raman

Delegates arrived to argue about totals and left arguing about disbursement rules, which is usually the sign that a fund is about to become real.

Satellite trails are now a routine line in the observing log, and the fix is turning out to be a scheduling agreement rather than a telescope upgrade.

Treating the tree canopy as infrastructure rather than amenity changes who maintains it, who funds it, and what happens when it fails.

Earlier classes, shaded routes, and cooling rooms are becoming part of a public-health response to dangerous summer temperatures.