On the road to decarbonization, Anthropocene’s latest newsletter is your smart guide. Each edition will zero in on a key issue, filter out the hype, and point you to terrific writing guaranteed to get you thinking.
Chemists unlock secret to making green ammonia from renewable energy in refrigerator-size reactors
The new, efficient technique could slash agricultural and transportation carbon emissions and be rolled out in communities and on individual farms
Pinpointing how elephants use scent trails may help humans protect them
Researchers found that male African elephants pay close attention to each other’s urine scent on shared trail systems. The results open the possibility of manipulating scent trails to better connect elephant populations and prevent conflict
Food-related emissions beyond the farm gate are now almost as large as those from farming itself
Researchers find that emissions resulting from transport, energy use, and food waste have increased swiftly over the last 40 years – and are almost equivalent to the emissions from farming, itself
Taking Off in Two Directions at Once
The quickest flight path to decarbonizing aviation could be less air travel—but it also might be a lot more of it
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A Memo from the Year 2050: How We Defeated the Worst Zoonotic Diseases by Brandon Keim
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Applying the Airbnb Business Model to Nature Conservation by Seema Jayachandran
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The Race to Build an Air Conditioner that Doesn’t Cook the Planet by Emily Underwood
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Hacking Nature
For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and tools for manipulating it—have opened up novel approaches potentially more powerful than mere imitation to solving Human Age problems.
How COVID kills coal
The pause of 2020 enabled low-carbon power growth to get ahead of electricity demand growth
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
The ultimate literature of the imagination calls upon us to do more than merely invent or imitate the apocalypse
Bottling Sunshine without Batteries
Turning sunlight into liquid fuels or hydrogen gas could address solar power’s biggest limitations
In a back-to-the-future move researchers use a compound in candles for grid energy storage
With this organic molecule, inexpensive, environmentally-friendly flow batteries could hold more energy and last longer
Rewritable Paper
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To pay for green infrastructure, cities are turning stormwater into an economic resource
But clever new financing instruments come with their own risks
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Writers:
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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