An Age of Fire

7/22/21

Hi Everyone: In this week’s collection of links to other Anthropocene stories, I’ve found 1) a fascinating technical and personal story about an MIT professor with a grand plan to store solar energy in large-scale facilities, 2) an excellent short article on how climate science has underestimated the impacts of current levels of global warming, 3) a National Geographic article on how increased dust in the U.S. West is speeding up spring/summer snow melt and worsening the impacts of the regional drought, 4) a NYT article on China’s new carbon trading market, and 5) a surprising study on the importance of cities for protecting biodiversity.

As usual, links to these stories can be found in Other Earth-Shattering News at the bottom of this newsletter.

Now, on to this week’s main course: