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Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: July 22, 2024
Keep Funding Vital Vaccines, Supercharge the Malaria Vaccine Rollout!
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The Weekly Anthropocene, July 24 2024
China hits its 2030 renewables target 6.5 years early, rhino rewilding in South Africa, R21 malaria vaccines in Côte d’Ivoire, Thailand has more tigers…
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Review: Inheritors of the Earth by Chris D. Thomas
Immigrant species are generally neutral to beneficial; the whole concept of "invasive species" is mostly fallacious (at least when they're vertebrates…
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Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: July 15, 2024
Pass the Fix Our Forests Act to Empower the U.S. Forest Service to Protect Woodlands with Prescribed Burns!
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The Weekly Anthropocene, July 17 2024
Frog saunas in Australia, 34,000 year old termite mounds, sperm whale phonemes, U.S. solar canals, clean drilling, & a titanium-melting microgrid, and…
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Interview: Kim Stanley Robinson, Science Fiction Maestro and Utopian
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Book Review: A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
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Interview: Dr. Christine Wilkinson, Carnivore Ecologist
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The Weekly Anthropocene, April 24 2024
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The Dawn of “Immigrant Species Biology”
Let’s read some papers that offer a better, kinder, smarter, and more useful way of thinking about "invasive" species
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Your Daily Dose of Climate Hope: July 1, 2024
Unleash U.S. Geothermal Power with the GEO Act!
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The Weekly Anthropocene, July 10 2024
A new PM for the UK brings a new dawn for climate action, South Sudan's newly quantified Great Nile Migration, U.S. green manufacturing, my exciting new…
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Even the “World’s Worst” Invasive Species Often Aren’t Actually Bad
Kudzu? Purple loosestrife? Tamarisks? Wild boar? Zebra mussels? All pretty OK!
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The Weekly Anthropocene, July 3 2024
SPECIAL ISSUE: A deep read of "Sun Machines," an era-defining essay in the new The Economist special edition "Dawn of the Solar Age"
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Dispatches from the Lab Cultivating America's Future Forests
In March 2024, The Weekly Anthropocene published an interview with Dr. Thomas Klak, a Maine researcher who’s become a leader in the efforts to restore…
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The Weekly Anthropocene, June 26 2024
Weaving wildlife bridges in Brazil, China's seven solar super-giants, drones in Vietnam rice paddies, AI crop breeding in Senegal, U.S. EVs getting…
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