The Great Decoupling

The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.

The Carnery

Imagine a culinary future with in vitro meat . . .The real thing may not be as far away as you think

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

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 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.

Biophony

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