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The Weekly Anthropocene, June 3 2026
The Big Picture: Dam Removals
Before and after the 2025 removal of the Mill Pond Dam on the Sabattus River in Maine, which reopened 75 miles of stream to sea-run alewife fish.
Hundreds of thousands of small dams were built during the I...
Africa's clean energy and conservation progress, live with Sam Matey-Coste and Amanda Royal.
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The Weekly Anthropocene, May 27 2026
The Big Picture
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Ember calculates that in April 2026, across all of human civilization wind plus solar generated more electricity than fossil gas for the first time ever! Wind and solar generated 22% of global electricity that m...
The Periurban Savanna of Nairobi National Park
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I took the train from Mombasa to Nairobi on May 9, and spent the next few days writing up my articles on the incredible mangrove restoration work I’d gotten to visit with EarthLungs. On May 13th, I went on a dawn safari to Nairobi...
The Weekly Anthropocene, May 20 2026
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As electrotech adoption accelerates worldwide due to the manifold stupidities of the Iran War fossil fuel crisis, new data is underscoring how profound and far-reaching the global clean electrification shift has...
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I'm a climate and energy journalist and environmental science analyst. The Weekly Anthropocene, my Substack, offers data-driven independent journalism on progress from around the world. I also write Your Dose of Climate Hope on behalf of CAN!
Investigator of hope. Former newspaper reporter and current eco-news junkie. Two Nevada Press Association awards for environment reporting. Worldwide internal honorable mention from The Associated Press. Centrist collector of solutions.
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