Linking wastewater and coal plants could slash carbon emissions and save freshwater
Drawing on a strategy called “infrastructure symbiosis,” a new study estimates that using sewage sludge and treated water as fuel and water source at coal plants could bring big environmental benefits.
A new way to fight Lyme Disease: Prescribed fire
Setting fires in eastern U.S. forests could combat rising tick-borne diseases, while also making forests more healthy, say scientists.
New research champions algae farms as the future breadbasket of the Global South
The authors calculate that strategically located algae farms could increase global food production by 56% using just one-tenth of cropland.
Can charging frequent flyers for their carbon solve aviation’s climate problem?
A bold plan goes up against global realities
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A global diet—designed to protect the planet—is too costly for 1.5 billion people
A new study considers a shortcoming in the influential dietary recommendations from the EAT-Lancet Commission: it doesn't factor in affordability across the globe.
New study quantifies the carbon emissions of virtual conferences
The carbon footprint of an online conference is vastly smaller than its in-person counterpart—but it is not zero.
Study ties amphibian collapses with increased malaria outbreaks
If you remove frogs and other "mosquito-reducers" from the landscape, what happens to malaria rates?
Researchers consider the benefits of conservation retreat: smaller reserves and focused funding
Decades of declining herbivore populations in central African national parks have conservation scientists arguing that smaller reserves might be better for wildlife
David Quammen
What if evolution isn’t linear, as Charles Darwin proposed when he first sketched the tree of life?
Emily Anthes
Amphibious architecture responds to floods like ships to a rising tide, floating on the water’s surface.
Oliver Morton
The godlike powers of geoengineering irrevocably change the human’s relationship with Planet Earth.
Frances Cairncross
What is the optimal rollout of carbon taxes and research subsidies to speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy?
David Biello
Welcome to the brave new world of artificial intelligence for conservation.
Veronique Greenwood
The rise of fast fashion and the technology that needs to change to keep your clothes out of the garbage.
Fred Pearce
Some economies may be quietly, and surprisingly approaching a phenomenon economists call “peak stuff.
Akshat Rathi
What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker into a carbon sponge?
Ted Nordhaus
The climate change apocalypse problem
Andrew Revkin
The word “anthropocene” has become the closest thing there is to common shorthand for this turbulent, momentous, unpredictable, hopeless, hopeful time—duration and scope still unknown
Vandana Singh
How might science fiction constructively contribute to the Human Age?
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