The Weekly Anthropocene
Sam Matey-Coste, 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 28 2026
The Big Picture: UN Emissions Gap Report
Source. “LULUCF” means “Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry” - i.e. carbon emissions from stuff like deforestation, not burning fossil fuel. CH4 is methane, N2O is nitrous oxides, F-gases inc...
The Next Twenty-Five Years
“Eclipsed Time” artwork by Maya Lin, formerly at Penn Station.
Thinking about the future can feel scary and confusing at the best of times, but of late much of global Anglophone media, economy, culture has become heavily invested in projec...
The Weekly Anthropocene, October 21, 2026
The Big Picture: Batteries Booming!
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The indispensable Ember reports that energy storage is rising fast around the world! In just five years from 2020 to 2025, battery additions per year rose 17-fold to a new high of 108 GW (108...
Interview with Vera Voronova, Rewilding Expert of Kazakhstan!
Vera Veronova.
Vera Veronova is the Executive Director of the Association for the Conservation of the Biodiversity of Kazakhstan (ACBK), the young Central Asian nation’s leading wildlife conservation NGO. The ACBK’s flagship Altyn Dala Con...
The Weekly Anthropocene, October 14 2026
The Big Picture: Wildlife Populations
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The Living Planet Index project published a new report on the health of 35,803 wild animal populations representing 5,790 species. It’s a great project with excellent data, but its headline...
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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!
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. 🌎
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