Impactsen.wikipedia.org How atomic doomsday experiments shaped disturbance ecology How atomic doomsday experiments, fuelled by Cold War fears, shaped then shook ecologists’ faith in self-healing nature.
aeon.co Essay: Plastics run in my family but their inheritance is in us all The genius and hubris of plastic has been absorbed by every living thing. Is it a curse or evolution’s next step?
Newsletter aeon.co We are heading for a New Cretaceous, not for a new normal A New Cretaceous is not the new normal: the Holocene was a gift that humanity took for granted.
NewsletterBill Greene/The Boston Globe/Getty How Lyme disease became the first epidemic of climate change In a warming world, ticks thrive in more places than ever before, making Lyme disease the first epidemic of climate change.
Top Story aeon.co How science fiction feeds the fuel solutions of the future Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future?
If we talk about hurting ‘our’ planet, who exactly is the ‘we’? The Anthropocene feels different depending on where you are – too often, the 'we' of the world is white and Western.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
