Post-coronavirus economic recovery policies could make or break the effort to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees
Investing an additional 1.2% of global GDP in climate-friendly technology as part of recovery would slash emissions by half in 2030
Tinted solar panels produce better basil—and more electricity
Researchers made the unexpected discovery that the basil and spinach grown under tinted panels were considerably higher in protein
Red bricks can be turned into battery-like devices
Using the red pigment in bricks as a chemical reactant, researchers fill brick pores with conductive plastic so they can store energy
In terms of carbon, is this glass of milk half full or half empty?
While the dairy industry's overall emissions have risen over time, the footprint of one liter …Do plastic bag bans make a difference?
Rewritable Paper
Print. Erase. Repeat.Researchers turn used coffee grounds into biodegradable plastic
Coffee grounds contain cellulose, an ingredient for making bioplastics.
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A View from Everywhere All the Time
Tech companies are rapidly networking the environment in ways that will transform our perception of nature—just as social media reshaped our relationships with each other. What could possibly go wrong?
How Much Energy Will the World Need?
Any climate plan that doesn’t consider this question is bound to fail.
3D Printed Bricks
could be the building blocks of modern, sustainable architecture
Could rewilding help prevent big wildfires?
When people look to nature for solutions to wildfires made bigger, hotter, and more dangerous by climate change, they tend to focus on vegetation—not animals. Yet evidence suggests that big plant-eaters may help prevent fire.
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 to Plant the Forests of the Future
In the past, forest restoration could be informed by what once was. Now we have to make hard decisions about what we’re working toward.
A Symbol for The Anthropocene
There could be more than 60 billion of them on the planet
Writers:
David Quammen
What if evolution isn’t linear, as Charles Darwin proposed when he first sketched the tree of life?
Emily Anthes
Amphibious architecture responds to floods like ships to a rising tide, floating on the water’s surface.
Oliver Morton
The godlike powers of geoengineering irrevocably change the human’s relationship with Planet Earth.
Frances Cairncross
What is the optimal rollout of carbon taxes and research subsidies to speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy?
David Biello
Welcome to the brave new world of artificial intelligence for conservation.
Veronique Greenwood
The rise of fast fashion and the technology that needs to change to keep your clothes out of the garbage.
Fred Pearce
Some economies may be quietly, and surprisingly approaching a phenomenon economists call “peak stuff.
Akshat Rathi
What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker into a carbon sponge?
Ted Nordhaus
The climate change apocalypse problem
Andrew Revkin
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
Vandana Singh
How might science fiction constructively contribute to the Human Age?
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