Anthropocene Stories
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
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
The Anthropocene Nightstand
Bookmarks for a Human Age
Biophony
Soundscape ecology plunges us into a wilder world beyond the mundane and merely visual
One Man’s Trash . . .
Mining landfills for metals and energy
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.
A memo from the year 2050
Here's how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
On Wizardly Prophets and Prophetic Wizards
Ted Nordhaus reviews The Wizard and The Prophet by Charles Mann
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.
