A new desalination device with a dash of green
By reimagining brine as a resource rather than a waste, this technology could make desalination affordable and environmentally benign.
Think before you de-extinct
Being able to resurrect species would be exciting—but lessons from reintroduction biology help us imagine what could go wrong.
Engineering plants to withstand drought and tolerate salinity
A genetic tweak gives cress plants the qualities of succulents, a trait that researchers are now looking to expand into other crops
Energy subsidies and the G20
Energy subsidies and the G20: Do as I say, not as I do.
Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data …
Rerouting
Small changes to flight routes could deliver big climate savings
Do plastic bag bans make a difference?
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Sustainable bricks made from sewage
Manufacturing bricks is carbon-intensive and creates toxic air pollution. Recycling treated solid waste to make bricks would keep some of this waste from landfills and reduce brick-making's emissions.
The Rise of the Wooden Skyscraper
New, mass-timber engineering could transform the twenty-first-century city from a carbon source into a carbon sink
We should be measuring the footprint of supply chains
Attributing water consumption and greenhouse gas emissions to countries rather than industrial sectors is a leading example of how the supply chain world warps geography.
Habitat with Humanity
Making creative accommodations for the urban wild
All forests are not equal in the carbon count
To clean up our carbon mess, we don’t just need more forests, we need better forests in the right places
Carbon-Negative Furniture
And other things made from greenhouse gases
Eyes on the High Seas
Illegal fishing is getting harder, thanks to public surveillance from space
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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