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Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. In the spring of 2024, a giant robot began attacking an underground nuclear reactor near Stockholm. The victim was the Ågesta Power Plant, Sweden’s first commercial pressurized water reactor, and the …

12 hours ago · Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order allowing commercial fishing inside nearly 1.3 million square kilometers of protected waters in the Pacific Ocean. The order, titled “Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific,” stated that “appropriately managed ...

1 day ago · Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. People who express pro-environmental attitudes in their everyday life nevertheless may not support environmental political parties, according to a new study. The analysis leverages a large European public opinion survey and machine learning techniques to ...

Feb 26, 2025 · It’s not just termites getting into the act. There are some of the best known and most charismatic examples: beavers that dam entire valleys; salmon that dredge river bottoms for their nests; grizzly bears that excavate hillsides in search of roots. But that, it turns out, is just a tiny fraction of all the critters busily moving earth to and fro.

It seems that we can’t help ourselves. Humans see patterns everywhere we look. We use patterns to make sense of the world—picture the eloquent double helix of a DNA strand; but also to make nonsense of the world—pick the latest conspiracy theory.

A new study finds that each tonne of food waste recycled, with existing technologies, would reduce carbon emissions by roughly a corresponding tonne.