Idea Watch
Stories about the people and projects pushing the boundaries of climate mitigation and sustainability
Let the best of Anthropocene come to you.
Geothermal Power Anywhere
Heat percolates upward from the Earth’s core everywhere in the world. So why can’t it be tapped everywhere, too?
How to jumpstart a market for a product that doesn’t yet exist
An economic tool that brought the world life-saving vaccines could now unlock billions for carbon removal.
The pelicans that brought peace to a troubled corner of Europe
Environmental peacebuilding shows that restoring nature can also heal conflicts
Designing a More Climate-Friendly Cow
The world has spent a century pumping up cows to produce more milk and meat. Can we now reinvent them to produce less damaging methane?
What do you get when you cross ecology, acoustics, and artificial intelligence?
A wholesale revolution in wildlife science
This counterintuitive technology fights climate change by making more carbon dioxide
Scientists are trying to pull methane from thin air to make CO2. It’s a surprisingly good idea.
AI is making an adventurous and sustainable plant diet possible
It looks like milk. It tastes like milk. But the ingredients include pineapple juice and cabbage concentrate—brought to you by a team of biochemists and computer scientists.
The World Is Our Battery
Batteries don’t have to be small or even portable. Here are five ambitious technologies that store energy in the rocks, water, and air all around us.
Resetting carbon offsets from the bottom up
Inside one quest to restore tarnished carbon markets, one family forest at a time
Pyrodiversity
The idea is pretty much what it sounds like. The trick is to get from here to there.
