Anthropocene Stories
The human population curve is on the move
Demography teaches an important lesson about population explosions: they are always temporary
Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past
Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
The ultimate literature of the imagination calls upon us to do more than merely invent or imitate the apocalypse
Picturing a Way Forward
An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate change, science fiction, and our collective failure of imagination
A View from Everywhere All the Time
Tech companies are rapidly networking the environment in ways that will transform our perception of nature—just as social media reshaped our relationships with each other. What could possibly go wrong?
The Climate Change Apocalypse Problem
Thinking about apocalypse, like thinking about one’s own death, is not something that most of us have much enthusiasm for
The Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
Milk Without the Cow. Eggs Without the Chicken.
Yeast-derived “animal products” may soon be part of an environmentally balanced diet
A Symbol for The Anthropocene
There could be more than 60 billion of them on the planet
After spending time around humans, animals lose their fear of predators
This has implications for a number of conservation initiatives from reintroductions to ecotourism.