Every piece we’ve published, sorted by date. Topics: Agriculture Biodiversity Carbon Cities Climate Ecosystems Energy Food Forests Fundamentals Health Land Management Land Use Oceans Plastics Policy Transportation Water
What is actually changing, what is uncertain, and what the gap between the two looks like in everyday systems.
Read ›Roughly a third of human greenhouse-gas emissions come from how we grow, move, and discard food. The biggest leverage points are not where most people look first.
Read ›Solar and wind capacity additions have outpaced fossil capacity additions globally for several years. The interesting question is no longer whether the transition happens, but how fast.
Read ›The famous gyres are visible. The more consequential plastic is mostly invisible — fragments, fibers, and the slow chemical leak from the surface.
Read ›Cities are several degrees warmer than the rural areas around them, and the gap is widening. The public-health consequences are larger than most municipal budgets recognize.
Read ›Agricultural soils worldwide have lost much of their original carbon content. Putting some of it back is one of the few large-scale carbon-removal options that improves the underlying productive asset.
Read ›The species we put on conservation posters are a tiny fraction of the loss that matters. The species we don’t name are doing the work that keeps human food and water systems running.
Read ›Plastic particles have been documented in human blood, lung tissue, breast milk, and the placenta. The exposure side of the story is now well established. The biology side is just beginning.
Read ›Total tree cover statistics can move in directions that obscure what is actually happening on the ground. The composition matters more than the count.
Read ›The argument that an EV is “dirtier” than a combustion vehicle because of battery manufacturing was once approximately true under specific assumptions. Those assumptions no longer hold in most markets.
Read ›Bleaching events that were once decade-scale anomalies are now annual or sub-annual in many reef systems. The biological window for adaptation is narrower than the rate of warming.
Read ›Fire seasons have lengthened, area burned has grown, and the smoke exposure now reaches populations far from the fires themselves. The drivers are climatic, but the response is structural.
Read ›Aquifers across major agricultural regions are being depleted faster than they recharge. The political mechanism for allocating the scarcity is, in most jurisdictions, not yet in place.
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