Tag: planet earth

• Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea

  September 27, 2021

  Ashort bureaucratic note from a brutally degraded microstate in the South Pacific to a little-known institution in the Caribbean is about to change the world. Few people are aware of… more ›

• New Energy Outlook 2020

  July 25, 2021

  The New Energy Outlook (NEO) is BloombergNEF’s annual long-term analysis on the future of the energy economy. https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/ more ›

• How one of Google’s massive undersea cables detects earthquakes

  February 27, 2021

  The web of undersea cables that transmit data around the world could one day be used to track earthquakes and tsunamis, according to new research. https://www.theverge.com/22301097/google-undersea-cable-detects-earthquakes more ›

• Gaia 2.0

  February 21, 2021

  According to Lovelock and Margulis’s Gaia hypothesis, living things are part of a planetary-scale self-regulating system that has maintained habitable conditions for the past 3.5 billion years (1, 2). http://science.sciencemag.org/content/361/6407/1066 more ›

• The Origins Of ‘Planetary Realism’ And ‘Whole Earth Thinking’

  February 21, 2021

  In the introduction to the Whole Earth Catalog in 1968, I wrote, “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” More recently, in “Whole Earth Discipline”… more ›