The Weekly Anthropocene
Sam Matey-Coste, Mike Sowden, Jeremy Ney, Climate Action Now, Leah StokesDispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.
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The Weekly Anthropocene, October 7 2026
Ethiopia
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Ethiopia began a world-historic mass-mobilization nationwide tree planting campaign in 2019, dubbed the Green Legacy Initiative. A network of seedling nurseries supplying regular government-organized mass tree planting...
Interview with Jim Thomas of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance!
Jean Thomas, Jim Thomas and a Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo in the Melbourne Zoo.
Australian zoologist and conservationist Jim Thomas is the founder and CEO of the Tenkile Conservation Alliance (TCA). For the last 25 years, he and his wife ha...
The Weekly Anthropocene, September 30 2026
The Big Picture: Presumption of Statehood
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On September 23, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly passed (unanimously, with even the current U.S. leadership agreeing) a landmark resolution clarifying “presumption of continue...
Interview with Governor Janet Mills of Maine!
Governor Janet Mills (D-Maine).
Janet Mills is the 75th Governor of the U.S. state of Maine. Previously the Attorney General of Maine, she was elected Governor in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. Her eight-year tenure was marked by expanding...
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Stanislav Petrov in his Air Defense uniform, as a young man.
Late at night on September 26, 1983, at the Serpukhov-15 military satellite command center south of Moscow, duty officer Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov of the Soviet Air Def...
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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!
Yorkshireman, travel writer, misadventurer and former archaeologist, now turned science writer and tedious enthusiast, chasing his curiosity to see what trouble it can get him into. Writes 'Everything Is Amazing'.
Data journalist, Columbia prof, former Federal Reserve. You've seen these maps.
Writing "Notes from the Electric Era." Prof of Climate + Energy Policy @ UCSB. Author of The Carbon Wave, and Short Circuiting Policy. MIT PhD, alum UToronto, Columbia. Host of "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Also on Bluesky. \ud83c\udf0e
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