Anthropocene Stories
Biophony
Soundscape ecology plunges us into a wilder world beyond the mundane and merely visual
Picturing a Way Forward
An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate change, science fiction, and our collective failure of imagination
On Wizardly Prophets and Prophetic Wizards
Ted Nordhaus reviews The Wizard and The Prophet by Charles Mann
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
One Man’s Trash . . .
Mining landfills for metals and energy
The Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
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
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.
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
