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The US electricity transmission system is often called the world’s largest machine, with around 650,000 miles of high voltage lines and millions more in local distribution. The grid is front and center in the transition to a fully sustainable economy, facing challenges of extreme weather, new power technologies, and huge demand increases. Here are five new ideas for keeping the (zero carbon) lights on
The natural world gives us the air that we breathe, the food that we eat, and a bounty of medicines and materials. Preserving biodiversity and wildlife is the best insurance we have against an unknown future. Here are five ways to keep our fellow inhabitants of Planet Earth healthy.
Climate action comes down to how individuals, organizations, and nations work together, and that’s based on a complex blend of politics, sociology, economics, and morality. Here’s the latest science on us—the human factors that are helping or hindering decarbonization efforts.
Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Planet Earth is basically a farm. Livestock cows, pigs, and sheep account for 96% of all land mammals (excluding humans), and over half of all habitable land is used for agriculture. How and what we produce for...
To have any chance of not busting through 2°C of global warming, we need to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere. So how are we going to suck carbon dioxide out of the air? And who’s going to pay for it? Here are five routes forward.