Algae powers computer for a year using only light and water
Made of common, inexpensive, and non-toxic materials, an algae-powered battery could be a sustainable option for powering electronics
Forests might not be the climate saviors we are counting on
New research suggests trees in the future won’t get a big growth spurt from more CO2, and will die more in wildfires, droughts and insect outbreaks.
A 15-year snapshot of US diets reveals a gradual shift away from beef
US citizens are eating less animal-based products—and that’s driven a 35% decrease in dietary carbon emissions over 15 years.
It's time to upgrade not just our technology, but also our collective imagination.
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The Upcycled Car by Mark Harris
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Enhanced Rock Weathering by Dan Ferber
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How to Shrink the Carbon Footprint of Health Care by Sarah DeWeerdt
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Carbon Negative Construction by Lucy Wang
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Glacial Elevation Operations by Kim Stanley Robinson
Bottling Sunshine without Batteries
Turning sunlight into liquid fuels or hydrogen gas could address solar power’s biggest limitations
Enhanced Rock Weathering
A geological process with a billion-year track record might boost crop yields and could lock up as much carbon as planting a trillion trees.
Habitat with Humanity
Making creative accommodations for the urban wild
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Are fish harvest estimates even close to being accurate? Maybe not.
Researchers have calculated by just how much official statistics underestimate the global harvest—and it isn’t pretty
Molasses-like material promises cheap, large-scale battery storage for wind and solar
The syrupy manganese-based liquid can store energy for months at a time, dramatically reducing the the cost of flow batteries
Reality Is Too Confining
We know that nature experiences can change environmental behavior—but it turns out those experiences don’t have to be real.
On a mere 1% of farmland, solar panels could provide 20% of US electricity
Agrivoltaics could also provide jobs and boost rural livelihoods, while cutting carbon emissions
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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