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1 week ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Warren Cornwall |Emma Bryce

The life of a juvenile salmon would be enough to have anyone reaching for an anti-anxiety pill. The tiny fish run a deadly gantlet as they swim from freshwater to the ocean, dodging ravenous predators and whirring hydropower turbines while pushing through sluggish reservoirs backed up behind dams. On one Swedish river, approximately one out of every 10 fish complete the journey.

1 week ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Sarah DeWeerdt |Warren Cornwall

Most countries around the world could improve their energy security and reduce trade risks by shifting away from fossil fuels, according to a new study. The analysis suggests that achieving net-zero carbon emissions at a global scale would result in decreased trade risks for nearly 85% of the global population.

1 week ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Emma Bryce |Warren Cornwall |Sarah DeWeerdt

One-third of all food produced for humans annually is lost to waste. The decomposing matter produces half of all the emissions generated by the global agrifood system. What if, instead of focusing solely on how to curb and avoid food waste, we turned the challenge on its head—and looked at what we can make with all that discarded food?

2 weeks ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Warren Cornwall

Animal migrations are marvels of the natural world. People are entranced by mass movements that span continents, as creatures travel thousands of kilometers in the pursuit of food, mates and ideal weather. Monarch butterflies trek across North American to high-altitude forests in Mexico, where they transform trees into shimmering black and orange sculptures. Waves of caribou travel some 3,000 kilometers to reach summer feeding grounds in the Arctic.

3 weeks ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Warren Cornwall |Emma Bryce

The Galápagos Islands have long been a showcase for how plants and animals adapt to their environment. The menagerie of unusual species inhabiting these volcanic outcrops off the coast of Ecuador played a central role in Charles Darwin’s insight about how species form – evolution by natural selection. Most famous are the plethora of finches with beaks shaped to collect different kinds of seeds. But there’s a new force at work on these remote islands.