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The coming plague: How humans are changing the landscape of disease
Disease ecologist James Holland Jones talks about the Black Death, “suspended snot,” and the power of what Obi-Wan Kenobi once called a “wretched hive of scum and villainy" in spreading global pandemics.
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Fracking and the road to a clean energy future
Geophysicist Mark Zoback says natural gas squeezed from shale can be a crucial and clean(ish) short-term energy fix -- if we’re careful about how we get it.
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The Anthropocene explained, game-show style [AUDIO]
Everything you need to know about the Age of Man in just five – OK, seven, minutes.
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Contrarian conservationist: Nature Conservancy’s chief scientist riles old-school greens
Biologist Peter Kareiva says conservationists are too focused on restoring pristine nature. Instead, he says, they need to think about creating a future we can all live with.
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Feed 9 billion people? We can do that, but it’s not going to be pretty
Stanford biology professor Peter Vitousek says that our population bomb doesn't need to cause an all-out apocalypse.
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Save the axolotl! Um, sure, but why?
Bears and sloths and salamanders are nifty and all, but do we really need to save every one of them? There’s a lot that needs saving, and frankly, we’re busy people. The Generation Anthropocene crew explores this tough question.
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In the climate struggle, a hunt for realistic solutions
Scientist-turned-legal scholar Michael Wara says we need to stop looking for the silver bullet and start taking smart, small steps toward change.
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Whales for sale: How cap-and-trade could finally save Flipper
In an age of global warming and mass extinction, the fight to save the whales seems quaint. But the whales are still in trouble -- and one scientist thinks she’s found a way to save them.
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Nature, revised: In a brave new world, we write the rules
Eco-critic Ursula Heise talks about the tired stories we tell about the planet, and suggests that we find some new ones.
