Robots Enter the Race to Help Save Dying Coral Reefs
Taryn Foster believes Australia’s dying coral reefs can still be rescued—if she can speed up efforts to save them. For years, biologists like her have been…
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Climate Reparations Won’t Work
In the concrete rubble on Kanokupolu beach, Tonga, leaves have begun forming a cover—green and glossy amid the dull grays of the detritus in the sand. A year…
You Don’t Need to Fear a World of 8 Billion Humans
On November 15, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. Well, more or less. That was the date selected by United Nations demographers as the moment…
El Niño Is Coming—and the World Isn’t Prepared
In 2023, the relentless increase in global heating will continue, bringing ever more disruptive weather that is the signature calling card of accelerating…
The Nightmare Politics and Sticky Science of Hacking the Climate
And exactly how much carbon they remove can vary quite a bit based on variables like the health of the vegetation. “One of the major risks of some of these…
‘Thinkwashing’ Keeps People From Taking Action in Times of Crisis
These make for some serious shortcomings to this imagined techno-utopia. But that doesn’t make these direct-air carbon capture efforts entirely useless.…
The Concrete Jungle Is Turning Green Again
In 1973, Lee set up the Garden City Action Committee and sent out green missions across the globe. “Our botanists brought back 8,000 different varieties and…
How Body Farms and Human Composting Can Help Communities
Spade began her investigations as a master’s student in Architecture with her thesis, “A place for the urban dead.” Seeking to replicate the process of…
Environmental Law Is Getting in the Way of Climate Action
The decades-long failure to act shows that many existing environmental laws “are made for very old problems,” Wood says. In Nixon’s day, Americans were…