Anthropocene Stories
The Carnery
Imagine a culinary future with in vitro meat . . .The real thing may not be as far away as you think
The Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data centers, and transit systems—in order to pull fossil fuels out.
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
Human-Driven Evolution Is a Hallmark of the Anthropocene
The Human Age will be shaped by the species we create and foster as well as the ones we kill off
On Wizardly Prophets and Prophetic Wizards
Ted Nordhaus reviews The Wizard and The Prophet by Charles Mann
An Anthropocene Journey
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
Maps of the New World
How do we think about our future place in a geographically altered world? A map is a good place to start.
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.
Blurring Life’s Boundaries
Darwinian theory is based on the idea that heredity flows vertically, parent to offspring, and that life’s history has branched like a tree. Now we know otherwise: that the ‘tree' of life isn’t that simple.
