Anthropocene Stories
The Circular Economy Made Real
In more and more pockets of the industrial landscape, the byproducts of one process are becoming the raw materials for another, trash is getting a useful second life, and waste is becoming a thing of the past.
Societies have reshaped landscapes for thousands of years. So why is the Anthropocene so destructive?
Researchers show humans have transformed the majority of terrestrial ecosystems for the past 12,000 years without causing large scale extinctions. Colonization, appropriation and displacement are likely to blame.
How Much Energy Will the World Need?
Any climate plan that doesn’t consider this question is bound to fail.
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
Italy’s bears are showing genetic signs of domestication
A new study shows how long-term coexistence with humans can reshape even the wildest predators—in this case, making bears less aggressive.
How trees become elders in a human-dominated world
A team of researchers combed through a database of 1.8 million century-old trees in China to solve an Anthropocene puzzle
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.
The ecology of fear in the Anthropocene has a new plot twist
New research finds that wolves are afraid of the super predator in the woods (humans)—and that protecting them doesn’t make them less fearful of us.
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
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
The ultimate literature of the imagination calls upon us to do more than merely invent or imitate the apocalypse
