Anthropocene Stories
Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past
Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.
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.
Biophony
Soundscape ecology plunges us into a wilder world beyond the mundane and merely visual
The Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
Milk Without the Cow. Eggs Without the Chicken.
Yeast-derived “animal products” may soon be part of an environmentally balanced diet
On Wizardly Prophets and Prophetic Wizards
Ted Nordhaus reviews The Wizard and The Prophet by Charles Mann
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.
The Carnery
Imagine a culinary future with in vitro meat . . .The real thing may not be as far away as you think
One Man’s Trash . . .
Mining landfills for metals and energy
