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.
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 Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
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 memo from the year 2050
Here's how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases
The human population curve is on the move
Demography teaches an important lesson about population explosions: they are always temporary
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
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
Instead of Trump’s Wall, Let’s Build a Border of Solar Panels
A solar border would alleviate a range of binational problems. For one, it would have a civilizing effect.
