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
An Anthropocene Journey
Longform Stories
You Pay or We Drill
You Pay or We Drill
When Ecuador asked the world for $3.6 billion to not drill for oil, the world balked. But in terms of reining in carbon, Ecuador may be on to something.
The Great Decoupling
The Great Decoupling
The story of energy use, economic growth, and carbon emissions in four charts.
Keeping Clothes Out of the Garbage
Keeping Clothes Out of the Garbage
How close are we to the Holy Grail of sustainable fashion?
The Future Will Not Be Dry
The Future Will Not Be Dry
In a world of melting ice caps, storm surges, and tropical cyclones, the most resilient cities aren’t the ones that fight the water back—but the ones that absorb it.
Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past
Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past
Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.
The Race to Reinvent Cement
The Race to Reinvent Cement
The material that built the modern world is due for an upgrade. What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker
into a carbon sponge?
Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization
Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data centers, and transit systems—in order to pull fossil fuels out.
How Much Energy Will the World Need?
How Much Energy Will the World Need?
Any climate plan that doesn’t consider this question is bound to fail.