Anthropocene Stories

Biophony

Soundscape ecology plunges us into a wilder world beyond the mundane and merely visual

A memo from the year 2050

Here's how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases

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

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.

A Symbol for The Anthropocene

There could be more than 60 billion of them on the planet

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.

Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past

Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.

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.

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