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.
Food scientists devise a clever way to recycle beer waste into food and fuel
By extracting the proteins and fibers in spent grain, researchers show that we can drink our beer and eat it too
Researchers connect the dots between aquatic biodiversity and human nutrition
That more diverse an aquatic area, the more nutrients make it to our plates
What are the world’s 35 biggest meat and dairy companies doing to mitigate climate change?
Drawing on a vast dataset called OpenSecrets, researchers found that the amount that companies spent on lobbying against climate action
generally tracked with the intensity of their emissions
Green Hydrogen Is Bubbling with Hype—Again
Is this time for real?
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Buy High, Sell Low: Managed Retreat from the Coasts by Elizabeth Rush
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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.
To boost EV adoption, add a lot of charging stations and a few gas-powered backup cars
It's all about convenience: MIT researchers identify strategies that increase electrification by fitting it into people’s existing lifestyles
Imagine There’s No Drivers
And no traffic lights. And no parking lots. It isn’t hard to do.
Milk Without the Cow. Eggs Without the Chicken.
Yeast-derived “animal products” may soon be part of an environmentally balanced diet
The Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
Study ties amphibian collapses with increased malaria outbreaks
If you remove frogs and other "mosquito-reducers" from the landscape, what happens to malaria rates?
Which European political parties have the most ambitious climate policies?
Spoiler: They are surprisingly similar in ambition—but they also all share the same blind spot.
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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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