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The Weekly Anthropocene, June 24 2026
The Big Picture: Resilient Reefs!
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Several recent news items raise hopes for the future of climate-resilient coral reefs! A landmark new study analyzing 45,000 coral surveys from around the world has identified and mapped nearly...
Your Monthly Dose of Climate Hope: A Conversation with Jan Rosenow of Oxford, Electrification Expert Extraordinaire!
The 13th Monthly Dose of Climate Hope event took place on June 16, 2026! Sam Matey-Coste hosted an in-depth conversation with Jan Rosenow, energy policy advisor to multiple EU governments and Professor of Energy and Climate Policy at the En...
Atrocity.
This article is wildly different in tone than my usual writing, but I feel ethically bound to write it nevertheless. I believe that the data clearly show that human civilization is rapidly morally improving itself overall1, but a hideous cr...
The Weekly Anthropocene, June 17 2026
The Big Picture
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World-leading think tank Ember is increasingly widely recognized for its deeply researched reports on the accelerating global electrotech revolution! One highlight visualization from their recent “A clean break”...
The Weekly Anthropocene, June 10 2026
The Big Picture: Mangroves
A mangrove forest seen from underwater. “An Underwater Forest by Marelo Johan Ogata, Indonesia.”
A landmark new study on mangrove forests, published in Science and analyzing satellite imagery from 1984 to 202...
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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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