This compilation consists of articles from blogs and from the scientific literature that have captured my fancy. It may be exhaustive, but it is by no means complete.

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Contents:

• Articles relevant to the Anthropocene
• Articles relevant to Living with a Star
• Articles relevant to Living on a Planet
• Articles relevant to Asteroid Impacts and Extinctions
• Articles about Greenhouse Gases
• Articles relevant to global warming and climate change
• Articles relevant to wildfires
• Articles relevant to Climate Migration
• Articles relevant to water, the AMOC, and sea level rise
• Articles relevant to energy sources
• Articles Relevant to Carrying Capacity, Resources, and Overpopulation
• Articles Relevant to the Future of Things
• Articles Relevant to Automation and the Future of Work, the Economy, and UBI
• Articles Relevant to the Future of War, including cyberwarfare
• Articles Relevant to Future of Cities and Civilization
• Articles Relevant to Privacy in a Digital Age
• Articles Relevant to Future of Humans (and Biology), including Policy
• Articles Relevant to Pandemics and Disease
• Articles Relevant to Robots and Artificial Intelligence
• Articles about Pollution, Pesticides, Plastics, and other Perils
• Articles on Light Pollution
• Articles about Other Life on Earth, including Ecosystems
• Articles about Risk Assessment
• Solutions, Tradeoffs, and Unintended Consequences
• Geoengineering
• Other Relevant (?) Articles

General

• Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer The Guardian, 4/3/25
• Atomic grains of sand: How the history of humans is written into the fabric of the Earth BBC, 2/11/25
• Montana supreme court upholds right to ‘stable climate system’ for youngsters The Guardian, 12/18/24
• The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth BioScience, 10/8/24
• Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth. New York Times, 9/19/24.Source: Judd, E.J et al. 2024, A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature Science 385, 6715. 9/20/24
• Fossil fuel industry influence in higher education: A review and a research agenda WIREs Climate ChangeAre We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say. New York Times, 3/5/24
• The Human Age Has a New Symbol. It’s a Record of Bomb Tests and Fossil Fuels. New York Times, 7/11/23
• ‘There’s been a fundamental change in our planet’: hunt on for spot to mark the start of the Anthropocene epoch The Guardian, 1/1/23
• The Medea Hypothesis: Why some experts say life on Earth sows the seeds of its own destruction Salon, 12/19/22
• For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age New York Times, 12/17/22
• What Happens When a Cascade of Crises Collide? New York Times, 11/13/22
• Global Ocean Environmental Survey
• Anthropocene Magazine
• For general climate information, see the following NOAA websites: climate.gov or Climate Information
• After 4 years, the EPA climate change website is back, at Climate Change

• Earth may have breached seven of nine planetary boundaries, health check shows The Guardian, 9/23/24
• How Close Are the Planet’s Climate Tipping Points? New York Times, 8/11/24
• Tipping Points for the Planet New York Times, 2/15/24
• A Collapse of the Amazon Could Be Coming ‘Faster Than We Thought’ New York Times, 2/14/24. Source: Flores, B.M. et al. (2024) Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system Nature 626, 555
• Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists The Guardian, 1/13/24. Source: World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot Science Progress, 9/20/23
• Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn The Guardian, 12/5/23
• Conditions on Earth may be moving outside the ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, according to dozens of scientists CNN, 9/13/23. Source: Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries Science Advances 9, #37. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh2458
• Scientists prove clear link between deforestation and local drop in rainfall The Guardian, 3/1/23. Source: Smith, C. et al. 2023, Tropical deforestation causes large reductions in observed precipitation Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05690-1
• For Planet Earth, This Might Be the Start of a New Age New York Times, 12/17/22
• Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another The Guardian (opinion), 11/3/22
• The World’s Climate Catastrophes Are All Interrelated Esquire, 8/29/22
• Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic ‘Anthropause’? New York Times, 7/16/22
• What the controversial 1972 ‘Limits to Growth’ report got right: Our choices today shape future conditions for life on Earth The Conversation, 7/12/22
• Here’s a Glimpse at a Future Hothouse Earth if Greenhouse Gasses Aren’t Curbed ScienceAlert, 5/8/22
• Plants humans don’t need are heading for extinction, study finds The Guardian, 3/10/22
• How did we get here? The roots and impacts of the climate crisis Science News, 3/10/22
• Intelligence as a planetary scale process International Journal of Astrobiology, 2/7/22
• Earth is getting a black box to record events that lead to the downfall of civilization C|Netm 12/5/21
• Our climate projections for 2500 show an Earth that is alien to humans The Conversation, 9/26/21
• Which Climate Threats Are Most Worrisome? U.S. Agencies Made a List. New York Times, 10/7/21. The Federal Climate Adaptation Plans, 10/7/21
• ‘Larger than usual’: this year’s ozone layer hole bigger than Antarctica The Guardian, 9/15/21
• World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021, Ripple, W.J et al., 2021, BioScience, 7/28/21
• Society is right on track for a global collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds Live Science, 7/18/21. See also MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule. Vice, 7/14/21
• How much time does humanity have left? Live Science, 5/18/21
• Societies have reshaped landscapes for thousands of years. So why is the Anthropocene so destructive? Anthropocene Magazine, 5/5/21. Source: People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years, Ellis, E.C. et al. 2021, PNAS118(17) e2023483118, 4/27/21
• Experts Say Humanity Faces a Grim and “Ghastly Future” – State of Planet Is Much Worse Than Most People Understand SciTechDaily, 4/25/21
• Points of No Return Grist, April 2021
• Human ‘stuff’ now outweighs all life on Earth Science, 12/9/20
• How long do most species last before going extinct? Live Science, 11/8/20
• Amazon near tipping point of switching from rainforest to savannah – study The Guardian, 10/5/20
• The Amazon Has Seen Our Future New York Times, 10/4/20
• The deep Anthropocene Aeon, 10/1/20
• How the oil industry made us doubt climate change BBC News, 9/20/20
• The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change Globalizations, Keen, S. 9/1/20, DOI:10.1080/14747731.2020.1807856
• Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn The Guardian, 6/1/20
• Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades Motherboard, 7/28/20. Source: Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis Bologna, M. & Aquino, G, 2020, Scientific Reports 10, 5/6/20
• Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we’ll likely be here for a very long time The Conversation, 5/5/20
• Climate crisis: in coronavirus lockdown, nature bounces back – but for how long? The Guardian, 4/9/20
• JP Morgan economists warn climate crisis is threat to human race The Guardian, 2/21/20
• By 2050, the U.S. will lose $83 billion a year because of all the nature we’ve destroyed Fast Company, 2/11/20
• How Does a Nation Adapt to Its Own Murder? New York Times, 1/25/20
• Were other humans the first victims of the sixth mass extinction? The Conversation, 11/21/19
• Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene The Conversation, 8/29/19
• Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought New York Times, 8/29/19
• Are We Heading Toward Extinction? Huffington Post, 7/20/19
• NASA Finds Evidence Humans Were Draining The Planet as Far Back as The 1900s Science Alert, 5/4/19
• The Cataclysmic Break That (Maybe) Occurred in 1950 The Atlantic, 4/16/19
• How The Iconic 1968 Earthrise Photo Changed Our Relationship To The Planet Bill McKibben, Huffington Post, 12/06/18
• How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 11/26/18
• Humans Have Changed The Course of Evolution in Ways We Never Predicted, Scientist Warns Science Alert, 11/14/18
• Ozone: The Earth’s protective shield is repairing BBC News, 11/6/18
• Scientists Warn That World’s Wilderness Areas Are Disappearing New York Times, 10/31/18
• Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970, report finds The Guardian, 10/29/18
• 10 ways the world is most likely to end, explained by scientists Vox, 10/18/18
• What the world needs now to fight climate change: More swamps The Conversation, 9/13/18
• Welcome to the new Meghalayan age – here’s how it fits with the rest of Earth’s geologic history The Conversation, 9/11/18
• Why scientists suspect proof of a turning point in Earth’s history is sitting in a lake in Milton, Ont. CBC News, 8/18/18
• Bad News: The Amazon Might Be Past the Point of Saving Futurism, 2/23/18
• The African Anthropocene aeon, February 2018
• Do civilisations collapse? aeon, 12/15/17
• Cultural Evolution in the Anthropocene NewCo Shift, 4/18/17
• The Planet Can’t Stand This Presidency New York Times, 4/20/17
• Approaching “societal collapse”: New equation shows how quickly humans are wrecking the planet Salon, 4/11/17
• Easter Island Shows Why Humanity Will Be Extinct Within 100 Years Big Think, 2/21/17
• The irony of the Anthropocene: People dominate a planet beyond our control The Conversation, 10/4/16
• Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity Rockstroem, J. et al. 2009, Ecology and Society 14

Articles relevant to Living with a Star

A History of Havoc: The Most Disruptive Solar Storms and Their Consequences New Space Econ omy, 4/8/23

What to expect from the peak of Solar Cycle 25 NOAA, 1/19/24

Extreme Solar events Cliver, E.W. et al. 2022, Living Reviews in Solar Physics 19, 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41116-022-00033-8

Summary of space weather worst-case environments UK Science and Facilities Research Council, Technical Report RAL-TR-2020-005, July 2020

Extreme space weather: impacts on engineered systems and infrastructure Royal Academy of Engineering, February 2013

Impacts of Severe Space Weather on the Electric Grid JASON JSR 11-320, November 2011

Space Weather: Its impact on Earth and implications for business LLoyds 360 Risk Insight Briefing, 2010

Severe Space Weather Events - Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts National Research Council, 2008

• A Warning From the Trees: Miyake Events SpaceWeather.com, 2/1/25
• Superflares Erupt From Stars Like Our Sun Once Every 100 Years Nerw York Times, 12/12/24. Source: Vasliyev, V. et al. 2024, Science 386, 1301 "Sun-like stars produce superflares roughly once per century"
• (Dec 9 2024): SOLAR STORMS ARE DRIVING FARMERS CRAZY spaceweather.com, 12/9/24
• Northern Lights Imperiled Infrastructure From Power Grids to Satellites, NOAA Memo Says Bloomberg, 8/30/24
• NOAA reports on May 25 geomangetic storm NOAA, 5/14/24
• Satellite Drag Analysis During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm arXiv, 6/12/24. Parker, W.E & linares,R.
• A Timeline of Great Aurora Storms SpaceWeather, 4/29/21. Source: Knipp, D. et al., 2021, Timelines as a tool for learning about space weather storms, J. Space Weather Space Clim, 11, 29
• The Next Big Solar Storm Could Fry the Grid Wall Street Journal, 10/13/23
• See the 'monster' sunspot that launched the Carrington Event, the most devastating solar storm in recorded history Live Science, 6/25/23 Solar maximum could hit us harder and sooner than we thought. How dangerous will the sun’s chaotic peak be? Live Science, 6/24/23
• NASA Reveals What Made an Entire Starlink Satellite Fleet Go Down Inverse, 4/8/23
• Cosmic storm may trigger ‘internet apocalypse’ within next decade, tree ring study reveals StudyFinds, 10/26/22. Source: Zhang, Q. et al., Proc. Royal Soc. A 478, 2266 Modelling cosmic radiation events in the tree-ring radiocarbon record. DOI
• Mapping a Magnetic Superstorm SpaceWeather.com, 6/12/22. Source: Love, J.J. et al. 2022, Mapping a Magnetic Superstorm: March 1989 Geoelectric Hazards and Impacts on United States Power Systems Space Weather 20, Vol 5.
• A geomagnetic storm may have effectively destroyed 40 SpaceX Starlink satellites The Verge, 2/10/22
• Why America Should Suddenly Prepare For A Billion-Dollar ‘Internet Apocalypse’ Caused By The Sun Forbes, 8/31/21
• Will the Next Space-Weather Season Be Stormy or Fair? New Yok Times, 5/28/21
• Cosmic rays causing 30,000 network malfunctions in Japan each year The Mainichi, 4/5/21
• The Great Québec Blackout SpaceWeather.com, 3/12/21
• What if … A Perfect CME Hit Earth? SpaceWeather.com, 1/21/21. Source: Numerical simulations of the geospace response to the arrival of an idealized perfect interplanetary coronal mass ejection, Welling, D.T. et al. , Space Weather, in press.
• Our Sun Has Entered a New Cycle, And It Could Be One of The Strongest Ever Recorded Science Alert, 12/8/20
• A Solar Forecast With Good News for Civilization as We Know It New York Times, 9/15/20
• A Warning from History: The Carrington Event Was Not Unique SpaceWeather.com, 8/30/20
• There’s Something Special About the Sun: It’s a Bit Boring Hew York Times, 4/30/20
• Here Are the U.S. Regions Most Vulnerable to Solar Storms IEEE Spectrum, 4/24/20
• Solar storms can mess with whales ability to navigate, cause strandings Cnet, 2/24/20
• Here are 5 of the weirdest auroras, including the newly spotted ‘dunes’ Science News, 2/7/20
• Space super-storm likelihood estimated from longest period of magnetic field observations ScienceDaily, 1/29/20. Source: Using the aa index over the last 14 solar cycles to characterize extreme geomagnetic activity Chapman, S.S et al., GRL https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086524n 1/22/20
• Surveying solar storms by ancient Assyrian astronomers Science Daily, 10/16/19. Source: Hayakawa, H et al. 2019, ApJ 884, L18. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab42e4
• Los Alamos releases 16 years of GPS solar weather data Science, 1/30/17. Data here
• Solar Storms Could Plunge the World Into Economic Ruin Inverse, 1/19/17. Source: Quantifying the daily economic impact of extreme space weather due to failure in electricity transmission infrastructure Oughton, E.J. et al. 2017, Space Weather, 1/17/19. DOI:10.1002/2016SW001491
• National Space Weather Action Plan National Science and Technology Council, October 2015
• National Space Weather Strategy National Science and Technology Council, October 2015
• Geomagnetic Storm - 3/17/15 Discovery.com, 3/17/15
• Living With a Star Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 2/4/15
• What If the Biggest Solar Storm on Record Happened Today? National Geographic, 3/2/11
• Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012 NASA, 7/23/14
• The truth about solar storms Ethan Siegal, Starts With A Bang, 7/24/14
• Assessing the impact of space weather on the electric power grid based on insurance claims for industrial electrical equipment, C. J. Schrijver, R. Dobbins, W. Murtagh & S. M. Petrinec, Space Weather, Volume 12, Issue 7, pages 487–498, July 2014
• New Study Links Weather Extremes to Global Warming New York Times, 4/27/1
• A Perfect Storm of Planetary Proportions IEEE Spectrum, 1/24/12

Articles Relevant to Living on a Restless Planet

• Distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in Pleistocene 100-kyr glacial cycles. Barker, S. et al. 2025, Science 387,6737
• A 485-million-year history of Earth’s surface temperature Juss, E.J. et al., 2024, Science 385, 1316
• Earth’s tectonic and plate boundary evolution over 1.8 billion years Coo, X. et al. 2024, Gerosciences Frontiers 15,6,101922 (Nov 2024).
• How the Largest Volcanic Eruption in Human History Changed the World Smithsonian, 1/24/25
• The next massive volcanic eruption is coming. It will cause chaos the world is not prepared for CNN, 12/24/24. Source: Counting the economic cost: How vulnerable could you be? , 12/24
• A Global Push Fixed the Ozone Hole. Satellites Could Threaten It. New York Times, 6/24/24
• How Earth Might Have Turned Into a Snowball New York Times, 2/7/24
• Oklahoma rattled by 5.1 magnitude earthquake The Guardian, 2/3/24
• Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict New York Times, 9/25/23
• Earth can stabilize run-away climate change on its own, MIT study finds The Brighter Side, 12/28/22. Source: Arnscheidt, C.W. & Rothman, D.H. 2022 Presence or absence of stabilizing Earth system feedbacks on different time scales Science Advances 8, 42, 11/16/22
• The Tsunami Could Kill Thousands. Can They Build An Escape? New York Times, 2/7/22
• NASA scientists estimate Tonga blast at 10 megatons NPR, 1/18/22
• Earth Is Getting Dimmer Gizmodo, 10/5/21. Source: Goode, P.R. et al., 2021, GRL, Earths Albedo 1998–2017 as Measured From Earthshine
• Volcanic eruptions may have spurred first ‘whiffs’ of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere ScienceDaily, 8/26/21
• The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record The Atlantic, P. Brannen, March 2021
• A Hitchhiker’s Guide to an Ancient Geomagnetic Disruption New York Times, 2/18/21. See also Earth’s Magnetic Field Flipped 42,000 Years Ago. The Consequences Were Dramatic Science Alert, 2/19/21
• NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field Science Alert, 8/18/20
• A plunge in incoming sunlight may have triggered 'Snowball Earths' PhysOrg, 7/28/20
• Human populations survived the Toba volcanic super-eruption 74,000 years ago Science Daily, 2/25/20. Source: Clarkson, C. et al. 2020, Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-14668-4
• Earthquake Devastation Will Be Our Fault Popular Science, 1/7/19
• A Mysterious Anomaly Under Africa Is Radically Weakening Earth’s Magnetic Field Science Alert, 3/6/18.
• The Magnetic Field Is Shifting. The Poles May Flip. This Could Get Bad. Undark, 1/26/18
• Would a Supervolcano Eruption Wipe Us Out? BBC Future, 7/24/17
• The geologic history of seawater pH Science, 3/10/17
• Does an anomaly in the Earth’s magnetic field portend a coming pole reversal? The Conversation, 2/5/17
• First Land Plants and Fungi Changed Earths Climate, Paving the Way for Explosive Evolution of Land Animals, New Gene Study Suggests Penn State University, 8/8/2001

Articles relevant to Asteroid Impacts and Extinctions

Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth-Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies National Academy of Sciences, 2010

Earth Impact Effects Program - Interactively estimate effects on an impact.

• Violent supernovae 'triggered at least two Earth extinctions' Science Daily, 3/13/25
• The remote locale that shielded plants during Earth’s biggest mass extinction Popular Science, 3/12/25
• DNA-busting radiation from star-killing supernova could have influenced evolution on Earth Space.com, 3/6/25
• Asteroid Alert: Could 2024 YR4 Be a Threat to Earth? Science Magazine, 1/28/25
• O’Connor, L.W. et al., Terrestrial evidence for volcanogenic sulfate-driven cooling event ~30 kyr before the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction Science Advances 10, 12/18/24
• Spacecraft launches towards asteroid knocked off course by Nasa BBC, 10/7/24
• New research reveals how El Niño caused the greatest ever mass extinction Phys.Org, 9/12/24
• A New Mini-Moon Is Being Captured by Planet Earth New York Times, 9/12/24
• The evidence is mounting: Humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals Phys Org, 7/1/24
• The Comet Strike Theory That Just Won’t Die New York Times, 3/5/24
• A newly identified ‘Hell chicken’ species suggests dinosaurs weren’t sliding toward extinction before the fateful asteroid hit The Coversation, 1/25/24
• Breakthrough finding ends the debate of what killed the dinosaurs Brighter Side of the News, 1/1/24. Source: A Bayesian inversion for emissions and export productivity across the end-Cretaceous boundaryScience, 9/28/23
• ‘City killer’ asteroid to pass harmlessly between Earth and moon The Guardian, 3/23/23
• NASA tracks a newly discovered asteroid that has a ‘small chance’ of hitting Earth in 2046 CMM, 3/10/23. Data: Sentry: Earth Impact Monitoring NASA/JPL Center for Near Earth Object Studies
• NASA’s DART Data Validates Kinetic Impact as Planetary Defense Method NASA, 3/1/23.
• Seventh shooting star ever spotted before strike Space Daily, 2/14/23
• Asteroid 2023 BU about to pass Earth in one of closest ever encounters The Guardian, 1/25/23
• Space dust from 4.2bn-year-old asteroid could hold key to preventing cataclysmic collisions with Earth The Guardian, 1/24/23
• Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another The Guardian (opinion), 11/3/22
• ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth New York Times, 10/31/22. See also Huge ‘planet killer’ asteroid discovered – and it’s heading our way The Guardian, 11/1/22. Source: Largest Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Detected in Eight Years NOIRLab, 10/31/22. Source: Sheppard, S.S. et al., 2022, A Deep and Wide Twilight Survey for Asteroids Interior to Earth and Venus, , 164, 168
• Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs also triggered global tsunami Space.com, 10/4/22. Source: Range, M.M. et el. The Chicxulub Impact Produced a Powerful Global Tsunami, AGU Advances 3, 5. DOI: 10.1029/2021AV000627
• The 5 Mass Extinctions That Have Swept Our Planet Discover, 9/12/22
• Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’ The Guardian, 8/1/22. Source: Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios, Kemp, L. et al., PNAS, 119, 8/1/22
• Study links bigger temperature changes with larger extinction events ScienceAlert, 7/30/22
• Toxic Slime Contributed to Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction—And It’s Making a Comeback Scientific American, 7/1/22
• Without Action on Climate, Another Mass Extinction Event Will Likely Happen in the World’s Oceans Smithsonian, 4/287/22
• Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Aftermath Was Even More Brutal Than We Realized Science Alert, 3/22/22
• How a Tiny Asteroid Strike May Save Earthlings From City-Killing Space Rocks New York Times, 3/21/22
• Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact European Space Agency, 3/15/22. See also Asteroid Spotted Just Two Hours Before Impacting Earth CNet, 3/16/22
• Controversial impact crater under Greenland’s ice is surprisingly ancient Science, 3/9/22
• Springtime asteroid hit ramped up extinction rates, say scientists The Guardian, 2/23/22
• 13,000 Years Ago, a Firestorm Covered 10% of Earth`s Surface, Triggering an Ice Age ScienceAlert, 2/7/22
• A Cosmic Airburst May Have Devastated a Vast Native American Culture 1,500 Years Ago ScienceAlert, 2/3/22
• Taurids Meteor Stream Could Cause Disaster To Earth Antarctic Journal, 12/25/21. Source: Napier, W.M. 2010 Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex, MNRAS 405, 1901. Also see Are asteroids hiding among the Taurids? EarthSky, 10/15/18
• Scientists Warn that Sixth Mass Extinction Has ‘Probably Started’ Motherboard, 1/19/22. Source: Cowrie, R.H., Bouchet, P. & Fontaine, B. 2022, The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? Bioological Reviews, 1/10/22
• La Palma Eruption and North Atlantic Tsunami Risk RMS, 10/28/21. Source: Cumbre Vieja Volcano -- Potential collapse and tsunami at La Palma, Canary Islands. Ward, S.N. & Day, S., 2001, AGU
• Every Mass Extinction Event Explained Grunge, 1/8/22
• How a Nuclear Bomb Could Save Earth From a Stealthy Asteroid New York Times, 10/18/21
• Meteorite Crashes Through Ceiling and Lands on Woman’s Bed New York Times, 10/14/21
• A Grim 'Huge Extinction Event' Happened 30 Million Years Ago, And We Only Just Noticed Science ALerts, 10/8/21
• Volcanic Eruptions Helped Dinosaurs Dominate Planet Earth New York Times, 9/27/21
• A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say Motherboard, 9/21/21. Source: Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction Mays, C. et al., 2021, Nature Communications 12, 5511
• A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom The Conversation, 9/20/21
• Mass Extinction Events Can Turn Freshwater Into Toxic Soup, And It is Already Happening Science Alerts, 9/19/21
• ArsTechnica, 9/17/21
• NASA Says an Asteroid Will Have a Close Brush With Earth. But Not Until the 2100s. New York Times, 8/11/21
• Exploding stars may have assaulted ancient Earth Science, 7/15/21
• Sharks Almost Went the Way of the Dinosaurs 19 Million Years Ago New York Times, 6/3/21
• Asteroid’s 22m-year journey from source to Earth mapped in historic first The Guardian, 4/22/21. See also Asteroid that Hit Botswana in 2018 likely came from Vesta Space Daily, 4/24/21
• A small asteroid just gave Earth and some satellites a very close pass CNet, 4/12/21
• How to Survive a Killer Asteroid Wired, 4/9/21
• SpaceX rocket debris lands on man’s farm in Washington The Verge, 4/2/21
• NASA Has a Plan to Punch an Asteroid With a Spaceship to Protect Earth Motherboard, 4/1/21
• Fiery 'airburst' of superheated gas slammed into Antarctica 430,000 years ago Live Science, 3/30/21
• Much-feared asteroid Apophis won''t hit Earth for at least 100 years, Nasa says The Guardian, 3/26/21
• Paleontologists Find 27-Million-Year Cycle In Earth’s Mass Extinctions Forbes, 12/22/20
• Burning Fossil Fuels Helped Drive Earth’s Most Massive Extinction New York Times, 11/19/20 New Theory Suggests Tunguska Explosion Was A 650 Foot-Wide Asteroid’s Near-Miss With Earth Forbes, 10/12/20
• A Supernova Exploded Dangerously Close to Earth 2.5 Million Years Ago Universe Today, 10/2/20
• Climate crisis 233m years ago reshaped life on Earth, say scientists The Guardian, 9/19/20. See also Newly discovered mass extinction paved the way for dinosaurs BBC Science Focus, 9/20/20 Source: Extinction and dawn of the modern world in the Carnian (Late Triassic) Dal Corso, J et al., 2020, Science Advances 6, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba0099
• European Space Agency awards $153 million contract for its first planetary defense mission TechCrunch, 9/15/20
• A car-sized asteroid made the closest Earth flyby a space rock has ever survived Space.com, 8/19/20
• Exploding stars may have caused mass extinction on Earth, study shows , 8/18/20
• 1,100 Foot Asteroid Will Speed Past Earth on Saturday, It''s As Big As the Gillette Stadium! Science Times, 6/5/20
• Mass Extinctions Are Accelerating, Scientists Report New York Times, 6/1/20
• No asteroids needed: ancient mass extinction tied to ozone loss, warming climate Science, 5/27/20
• Supercomputer simulates the impact of the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs ZDNet, 5/26/20
• Meteor that blasted millions of trees in Siberia only 'grazed' Earth, new research says LiveScience, 5/26/20
• Cosmic impact obliterated early human settlement Futurity, 3/9/20. Source: Evidence of Cosmic Impact at Abu Hureyra, Syria at the Younger Dryas Onset (~12.8 ka): High-temperature melting at >2200 °C, Moore, A.M.T. et al., 2020, Scientific Reports 10, 4185
• Scientists just watched a newfound asteroid zoom by Earth. Then they saw its moon Space.com, 2/13/20
• A 2.2-billion-year-old crater is Earth’s oldest recorded meteorite impact Science News, 1/21/20
• The 5 Major Mass Extinctions Thought Co., 1/8/20
• Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here’s The Science Science Alert, 11/18/19
• What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now? The Conversation, 11/12/19
• New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an abrupt climate change for EarthThe Conversation, 10/22/19
• The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a Flash New York Times, 10/21/19
• A Massive Asteroid Collision Once Caused Earth To Cool And Enter An Ice Age. Can We Replicate It? Forbes, 9/21/19. Source: An extraterrestrial trigger for the mid-Ordovician ice age: Dust from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body, Schmitz, B. et al, 2019, Science Advances 5, 9. DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aax4184
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• World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study The Guardian, 2/13/25
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• ‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running The Guardian, 9/10/24
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• We're Disrupting Another Major Earth Cycle, And No One's Talking About It Science Alerts, 11/5/23
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• A river's recovery will start with a dam's removal Aizona Republic, 10/10/23
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• ‘Monster Fracks’ Are Getting Far Bigger. And Far Thirstier. New York Times, 9/25/23
• Saltwater in the Mississippi Threatens Water Supply in New Orleans , 9/23/23
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• Climate change will raise sea levels, cause apocalyptic floods and displace almost a billion people Salon, 8/28/23
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• Opinion: I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake New York Times, 3/25/23
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• Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows The Conversation, 6/27/22
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• Low oxygen levels along Pacific Northwest coast a ‘silent’ climate change crisis The Oregonian, 9/30/21
• Arctic Sea Ice Hits Annual Low, but It’s Not as Low as Recent Years New York Times, 9/23/21
• 40 Million People Rely on the Colorado River. It’s Drying Up Fast. New York Times, 8/27/21
• Small Towns Grow Desperate for Water in California New York Times, 8/14/21
• As coastal flooding worsens, some cities are retreating from the water Louisiana Illuminator, 7/19/21
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• Global heating pace risks ‘unstoppable’ sea level rise as Antarctic ice sheet melts The Guardian, 5/5/21
• Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows The Guardian, 4/23/21
• Retreat from coastlines? Politicians don’t want to talk about it. Grist, 4/8/21
• Melting ice sheets caused sea levels to rise up to 18 meters Phys.org, 4/1/21
• Tiny Town, Big Decision: What Are We Willing to Pay to Fight the Rising Sea? New York Times, 3/14/21
• In the Atlantic Ocean, Subtle Shifts Hint at Dramatic Dangers New York Times, 3/2/21
• Atlantic Ocean circulation at weakest in a millennium, say scientists The Guardian, 2/25/21. See also A Major Ocean Current Could Be on The Verge of a Devastating ’Tipping Point’ Science Alert, 2/25/21
• Earth is losing ice faster today than in the mid-1990s, study suggests Reuters, 1/25/21
• Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado’s Water New York Times, 1/3/21
• The Water War on the U.S.-Mexico Border Has Just Begun Foreign Policy, 10/19/20
• Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years CNN, 10/5/20
• Greenland’s ice melting faster than at any time in past 12,000 years The Guardian, 9/30/20. Source: Rate of mass loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet will exceed Holocene values this century. Briner, J.P. et al., 2020, Nature 586, 70
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• The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California Mother Jones, 8/26/20
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• New York’s Rising Tides: Climate Inequality and Sandy’s Legacy The New York Review of Books, 6/13/20
• Climate Change Has Helped Fuel a Megadrought in the Southwest Scientific American, 4/17/20. Source: Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought Williams, A.P. et al., 2012, Science 368, 4/17/20
• Projected Future Melt Of The Greenland Ice Sheet May Be Underestimated By Half Forbes, 4/15/20
• Cities are Flouting Flood Rules. The Cost: $1 Billion New York Times, 4/10/20
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• World’s beaches disappearing due to climate crisis – study The Guardian, 3/2/20
• Most California cities refuse to retreat from rising seas. One town wants to show how it’s done LA Times, 2/24/20
• Economic costs of rising seas will be steeper than we thought, unless we prepare ScienceNews, 2/21/20
• Sea level rise accelerating along US coastline, scientists warn The Guardian, 2/3/20
• Thwaites Glacier Transformed NASA, 12/28/19
• The world’s mountain ‘water towers’ are melting, putting 1.9 billion people at risk The Conversation, 12/17/19
• World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds New York Times, 12/7/19
• Scientists looked 125,000 years into the past. The results are terrifying The Conversation, 11/6/19
• Sea Levels Will Rise for Centuries Even if Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals Are Met The Weather Channel, 11/7/19
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• Freshwater Is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife Scientific Americam, 12/6/18
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• Observations from Mariana Trench Show Inner Earth Is Sucking Up Far More Water Than Previously Thought Gizmodo, 11/16/18
• First Major Rain in Centuries Triggers Wave of Death in Earth’s Driest Desert Gizmodo, 11/15/18
• Rising Tides: How Near-Daily Flooding of America’s Shorelines Could Become the Norm ClimateCentral, 10/4/18
• New research shows the world’s ice is doing something not seen before The Guardian, 9/26/18
• How Dutch stormwater management could have mitigated damage from Hurricane Florence CBS: 60 Minutes, 9/23/18
• At this rate, Earth risks sea level rise of 20 to 30 feet, historical analysis shows Washington Post, 9/20/18. Also Even moderate warming could melt Antarctic ice sheet: study France 24, 9/19/18. Source: Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials Nature, 9/19/18
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• The Water Crises Aren’t Coming—They’re Here Esquire, 8/23/18
• Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record The Guardian, 8/21/18
• More than 2 billion people lack safe drinking water. That number will only grow. Science News, 8/16/18
• In a warming world, the fight for water can push nations apart—or bring them together Quartz, 8/16/18
• What the Surging Glaciers of Svalbard Tell Us About the Future of Rising Seas Smithsonian, 8/17/18
• Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than nature replaces it The Conversation, 8/7/18
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• Sea Level Rise Will Threaten Thousands of California Homes Scientific American, 6/18/18
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World Energy Outlook 2023 International Energy Agency (IEA), October 2023.

The Production Gap, 2021 Report UN Environment Program, October 2021

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World Energy Outlook 2019 International Energy Agency (IEA), November 2019

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• US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years The Guardian, 10/24/24
• The Last Coal-Fired Power Plants in New England Are to Close New York Times, 3/28/24
• MIT Claims Superconducting Breakthrough Means Fusion Power Can Be Practical Futurism, 3/8/24
• Solar water heaters were cool in 1980s. They could be again. Washington Post, 2/13/24
• Energy based on power of stars is step closer after nuclear fusion heat record The Guardian, 2/8/24
• Natural Hydrogen: A Potential Clean Energy Source Beneath Our Feet Yale Environment360, 1/25/24
• Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling Yahoo!Finance, 1/10/24
• Government Scientists ‘Approaching What is Required for Fusion’ in Breakthrough Energy Research Motherboard, 11/30/22
• Youth Debate: Nuclear Energy – Climate Friend or Foe? COP 27, 11/15/22
• Nuclear Power Still Doesn’t Make Much Sense (opinion) New York Times, 9/16/22
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• Stanford-led research finds small modular reactors will exacerbate challenges of highly radioactive nuclear waste Stanford University, 5/30/22. Source: Nuclear waste from small modular reactors, Krall, L.M. et al., 2022, PNAS 119
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• Clean energy is buried at the bottom of abandoned oil wells Vox, 4/19/22
• County by county, solar panels face pushback NBC News, 3/6/22
• How the war in Ukraine and climate change are shaping the nuclear industry CNBC, 3/5/22
• Fusion’s role in fighting climate change Bulletic of the Atomic Scientists, 11/15/21
• Bill Gates-backed experimental nuclear power plant heads to tiny Wyoming city The Guardian, 11/16/21
• MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy MIT News, 9/8/21
• Is There a Nuclear Option for Stopping Climate Change? New York Times, 8/26/21
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• Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs The Conversation, 11/19/20
• Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test as Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel IEEE Spectrum, 11/13/20
• Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA Carbon Brief, 10/13/20
• Clean Energy Is Canceling Gas Plants Rocky Mountain Institute, 9/30/20
• Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest New York Times, 9/29/20. Description: SPARC MIT. Source: Status of the SPARC Physics Basis Journal of Plasma Physics, 9/29/20
• The US has more power outages than any other developed country. Here’s why. Popular Science, 8/17/20
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• The $2.5 Trillion Reason We Can’t Rely on Batteries to Clean up the Grid Technology Review, 7/27/18
• Coming Soon: Open-Source Blueprints for a Tiny Nuclear Reactor Popular Mechanics, 3/3/20
• New green technology generates electricity 'out of thin air' Phys Org, 2/17/20
• Anti-solar panel can generate electricity at night, researchers say Inverse, 2/2/20
• Company to harvest green hydrogen from underground oil fires Science, 2/6/20
• Current model for storing nuclear waste may not be sufficiently safe, study says ABC News, 1/28/20. Source: Self-accelerated corrosion of nuclear waste forms at material interfaces, Guo, X. et al. Nature Materials, 1/27/20
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• Nuclear energy too slow, too expensive to save climate: report Reuters, 9/23/19
• How New York City Gets Its Electricity New York Times, 2/10/17
• Tesla Battery Economics: On the Path to Disruption Ramez Naam, 4/30/15
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• US Wind Power Is Expected to Double in the Next Five Years Motherboard, 3/12/15

The Demographic Outlook: 2025 to 2055 Congressionbal Budget Office, January 2025

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• The End of Children New Yorker, 2/24/25
• The world has passed “peak child” Our World in Data, 1/13/25
• The Age of Depopulation Foreign Affairs, 10/10/24
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• Montana Court Restricts Use of Groundwater for New Homes New York Times, 2/15/24
• Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems The Conversation, 2/7/24
• Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand Scientific American, 2/1/24
• The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next? New York Times, 9/18/23
• Can China Reverse Its Population Decline? Just Ask Sweden. New York Times, 2/9/23
• Japan PM says country on the brink over falling birth rate BBC, 1/23/23
• 8 billion humans: How population growth and climate change are connected as the ‘Anthropocene engine’ transforms the planet The Conversation, 11/15/22
• Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the planet’ The Guardian, 11/3/22
• At least 6% of global fishing ‘probably illegal’ as ships turn off tracking devices The Guardian, 11/2/22
• A 1970s paper predicted societal collapse in 2040 - here’s what the analyst who confirmed it says Independent, 6/18/22
• After millennia of agricultural expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’ Our World in Data, 5/30/22
• Our use of sand brings us “up against the wall”, says UNEP reportUN Environment Programme, 4/26/22
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• Midwestern US has lost 57.6 billion metric tons of soil due to agricultural practices, study finds Phys Org, 3/16/22
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• The great population growth slowdown Vox, 1/5/22
• China’s population may start to shrink this year, new birth data suggest Science, 1/18/22
• The US finally adopts a national recycling strategy The Verge, 11/15/21. Announcement: EPA Releases Bold National Strategy to Transform Recycling in America EPA, 11/15/21
• Race to the bottom: the disastrous blindfolded rush to mine the deep sea The Guardian, 9/27/21
• Report: Climate change could see 200 million move by 2050 AP News, 9/13/21
• Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications New York Times, 5/22/21
• EVs Will Drive A Lithium Supply Crunch IEEE Spectrum, 5/5/21
• Are there too many people? All bets are off The Guardian, 5/8/21
• Tropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020 New York Times, 3/31/21
• How the Loss of Soil Is Sacrificing America’s Natural Heritage Yale Environment 360, 3/1/21
• The truth about Easter Island Inverse, 9/19/20
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• World population likely to shrink after mid-century, forecasting major shifts in global population and economic power Science Daily, 7/15/20. Source: The Lancet, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30677-2
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• New Discovery Just Changed Our Understanding of The Source of Easter Island’s Moai Science Alert, 12/16/19
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• More Than 75 Percent of Earth’s Land Areas Are ‘Broken,’ Major Report Finds Motherboard, 3/26/18
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• Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet Steffen et al., Science, 1/15/15

• How Ants May Save You from Future Traffic Jams Scientific American, 3/5/25
• Human drivers keep rear-ending Waymos Arstechnica, 9/11/24
• Electric cars more likely to hit pedestrians than petrol vehicles, study finds The Guardian, 5/21/24
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• Major legal changes needed for driverless car era BBC News, 1/26/22
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• Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix The Verge, 10/30/20
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• Driver stranded after connected rental car can’t call home ArsTechnica, 2/18/20
• Trump signs order to test U.S. infrastructure’s vulnerability to GPS outage Reuters 2/12/20
• 2 satellites will narrowly avoid colliding at 32,800 mph over Pittsburgh on Wednesday Space.com, 1/28/20
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• Auto theft on the rise in Toronto area, and a security expert thinks he knows why CBC, 12/4/18
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• Urban Planning Guru Says Driverless Cars Won’t Fix Congestion New York Times, 10/27/18
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• Rolls-Royce Wants to Fill the Seas With Self-Sailing Ships Wired, 10/15/18
• His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming New York Times, 2/10/18
• America’s Workforce and the Self-Driving Future Securing America’s Future Energy, June 2018
• People Are Attacking Driverless Cars AP, 3/10/18
• California Scraps Safety Driver Rules for Self-Driving Cars New York Times, 2/26/18
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The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines MIT, November 2020

• A German experiment gave people a basic monthly income. The effect on their work ethic was surprising CNN, 4/11/25. See also Free money: Germany’s basic income experiment DW, 4/15/25
• Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp? New York Times, 11/23/21
• Making a Living The Nation, 10/4/21
• Robots: stealing our jobs or solving labour shortages? The Guardian, 10/2/21
• It’s not a ‘labor shortage.’ It’s a great reassessment of work in America. Washinhgton Post, 5/7/21
• Don’t Fear the Robots, and Other Lessons From a Study of the Digital Economy New York Times, 11/17/20
• Machines to 'do half of all work tasks by 2025' BBC, 10/21/20
• Study: COVID speeds up human vs machine standoff over work PhysOrg, 10/21/20
• Researchers gave thousands of dollars to homeless people. The results defied stereotypes CNN, 10/9/20. Source: Taking Bold Action on Homelessness The New Leaf Project. The project: The New Leaf Project
• Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You ProPublica, 10/2/20
• Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after COVID Nikkei Asian Review, 9/25/20
• ‘We were shocked’: RAND study uncovers massive income shift to the top 1% Fast Company, 9/14/20
• The Workforce Is About to Change Dramatically The Atlantic, 8/6/20
• Who still needs the office? U.S. companies start cutting space Reuters, 7/22/20
• Universal basic income seems to improve employment and well-being New Scientist, 5/6/20
• Coronavirus Likely to Lead to Permanent Growth in Work-From-Home Ranks Rockefeller Institute of Government, 4/2/20
• If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren’t They Saving Us Now? Wired, 3/23/20
• People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report CBC, 3/5/20. Source: Southern Ontario’sBasic Income Experience, March 2020
• Why we can’t develop voting software that works InfoWorld, 2/6/20
• The Robots Are Coming. Prepare for Trouble New York Times, 1/30/20
• The Robots Are Coming for Our Jobs The Nation, 11/27/19
• After Uber arrives, heavy drinking increases The Economist, 11/19/19
• Critics of universal basic income argue giving people money for nothing discourages working — but a study of Alaska''s 36-year-old program suggests that''s not the case Business Insider, 10/30/18. Source: The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Jones & Marinescu, Feb 2018
• Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam Medium, 10/10/18
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• Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government Wired, 11/12/17
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• The Paradox of Universal Basic Income Wired, 3/28/18
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• The Future of Jobs in the World of AI and Robotics, Knowledge@Wharton, 3/1/18
• Automating jobs is how society makes progress Quartz, 2/22/18
• Tech companies should stop pretending AI won’t destroy jobs MIT Technology Review, 2/21/18
• Will Robots Set Us Free? Boston Review, 2/7/18
• AI and robots are displacing science and tech workers. The question is: How quickly? PBS Newshour, 1/22/18
• Space mining is going to seriously disrupt Earth''s economy. And we''re nowhere near ready for the shock Wired, 1/20/18
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• There Will Be a War in Space. This Is What It Will Look Like. Popular Mechanics, 12/9/24
• How GPS warfare is playing havoc with civilian life Financial Times/em>, 5/14/24
• FBI says Chinese hackers preparing to attack US infrastructure Reuters, 4/18/24
• America’s Next Soldiers Will Be Machines Foreign Policy, 4/6/24
• Ant geopolitics AEON, 2/16/24
• A Chinese Satellite Just Grappled Another And Pulled It Out Of Orbit The Drive, 1/27/22
• The Taliban, not the West, won Afghanistan’s technological war Technology Review, 8/23/21
• The Pentagon Wants Elon Musk to Yeet Cargo Around the Planet In an Hour Motherboard, 10/9/20
• Why Military Exoskeletons Will Remain Science Fiction Forbes, 8/17/20
• US Army trials exoskeletons for military use US Army, 6/11/20
• Dangers Without Borders: Military Readiness in a Warming World Inside Climate News, 11/19/18
• The F-35’s Greatest Vulnerability Isn’t Enemy Weapons. It’s Being Hacked. Popular Mechanics, 11/14/18
• When Climate Change Starts Wars Nautilus, 8/9/18
• Military documents reveal how the US Army plans to deploy AI in future wars TNW, 4/2/18. Source: Challenges and Characteristics of Intelligent Autonomy for Internet of Battle Things in Highly Adversarial Environments
• The future of war The Economist, 1/25/18

• Why America is stuck with an elevator crisis Axios, 1/5/25
• Why societies grow more fragile and vulnerable to collapse as time passes BBC, 4/25/24
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• Could Better Buses Fix Your Commute? New York Times, 12/7/23
• Widening Highways Doesn’t Fix Traffic. So Why Do We Keep Doing It? New York Times, 1/6/23
• Flying taxis, robotic avatars and holograms — Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with its sci-fi city vision CNBC, 10/25/22
• Researchers think a key to cooling cities lies in Naples’ ancient aqueducts NBC News, 10/6/22
• These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate. New York Times, 11/20/21
• Perfecting the New York Street New York, 11/11/21
• Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit New York Times, 10/3/21
• Telosa - city of the future. Commentary: A billionaire wants to build a utopia in the US desert. Seems like this could go wrong The Guardien, 9/20/21.
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• Why COVID-19 won’t kill cities The Conversation, 1/25/21
• The Capital of Sprawl Gets a Radically Car-Free Neighborhood New York Times, 11/1/20
• Wasteful, Damaging and Outmoded: Is It Time to Stop Building Skyscrapers? The Guardian, 7/11/20
• Inside Singapore’s huge bet on vertical farming Technology Review, 10/13/20
• How Climate Migration Will Reshape America New York Times, 9/15/20
• The Coronavirus Shows It’s Time To Remake The American City HuffingtonPost, 4/23/20
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• Density Is Normally Good for Us. That Will Be True After Coronavirus, Too. New York Times, 3/24/20
• What I’m Reading: The Future of Food Pocket Collection, 2/21/20
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• Do Civilisations Collapse? Aeon, 10/29/19
• New York City subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say The Guardian, 11/20/18
• Rethinking Manhattan’s Grid CityLab, 8/30/18
• Empty half the Earth of its humans. ItYs the only way to save the planet The Guardian, 3/20/18
• Relying on renewables alone significantly inflates the cost of overhauling energy MIT Technology Review, 2/26/18
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• Climate Adaptation Is Essential, Scientists Warn EcoWatch, 2/5/18 Developing world cannot sustainably achieve same living standards as West, says study The Inependent, 2/5/18
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• How to Build a City That Doesn’t Flood? Turn it Into a Sponge JSTOR Daily, 12/5/17
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NSA Cybersecurity Recommendations National Security Agency, August 2020

• License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars Wired, 10/3/24
• New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat Electronic Frontier Foundation , 6/18/24
• Online Privacy and Overfishing Schneier on Security, 6/5/24
• Law professor Danielle Citron: ‘Privacy is essential to human flourishing’ The Guardian, 10/2/22
• Woman Sues San Francisco Over Arrest Based on DNA From Her Rape Kit New York Times, 9/13/22
• Your DNA Test Could Send a Relative to Jail New York Times, 12/27/21
• Huge fines and a ban on default passwords in new UK law BBC, 11/25/21
• Singapore’s world-first face scan plan sparks privacy fears AFP, 10/18/20
• Proprietary Grapes Come With Draconian End User License Agreement Motherboard, 10/14/20
• Internet Freedom Has Taken a Hit During the Covid-19 Pandemic Wired, 10/14/20
• Amazon’s Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy Wired, 10/11/20
• Facial recognition designed to detect around face masks is failing, study finds C|Net, 8/25/20
• The NSA tells military personnel to avoid using location services engadget, 8/4/20
• Will the Pandemic Usher in an Era of Mass Surveillance in Higher Education? Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/14/20
• Digital surveillance can help bring the coronavirus pandemic under control – but also threatens privacy The Conversation, 4/13/20
• Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus New York Times, 4/7/20
• Give All My Data to Google and the CDC Slate/Future Tense, 4/6/20
• Facebook asks users about coronavirus symptoms, releases friendship data to researchers Reuters, 4/6/20
• Microsoft president calls Washington state’s new facial recognition law ‘a significant breakthrough’ GeekWire, 3/31/20
• How Much Privacy Are You Entitled to During a Pandemic? Future Tense, 3/20/20
• As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets New York Times, 3/23/20
• You Are Now Remotely Controlled New York Times, 1/24/20
• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy New York Times, 12/19/19
• How to Disappear CityLab, 4/24/17
• Major UK companies preparing to microchip employees The Telegraph, 11/10/18
• How I Lost and Regained Control of My Microchip Implant Motherboard, 11/15/18
• Thousands Of Swedes Are Inserting Microchips Under Their Skin NPR, 10/22/18
• Who needs democracy when you have data? Technology Review, 8/20/18
• Google and Facebook are watching our every move online. It’s time to make them stop CNBC, 1/31/18. Original Source Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project
• They Are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet National Geographic, February 2018
• Amazon Wants to Put a Camera and Microphone in Your Bedroom Motherboard, 4/26/17
• Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us? NPR, 10/2/13

• Shocking Stats: 30 Million People Could Die Each Year From Climate Change, study says Climate Crisis 247, 11/23/24
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• Oil Executives Privately Contradicted Public Statements on Climate, Files Show 9/14/22
• Faster internet speeds linked to lower civic engagement in UK The Guardian, 1/23/22
• Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct Scientific American, 11/30/21
• Explainer: How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change Climate Brief, 4/19/18
• Can We Learn to Live With Germs Again? New York Times, 4/23/21
• The genetic mistakes that could shape our species BBC, 4/12/21
• If Aliens Exist, Here’s How We’ll Find Them Nautilus, 2/24/21
• Falling sperm counts 'threaten human survival', expert warns The Guardian, 2/26/21
• How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years’ time BBC Future, 8/3/20
• Biotech Startup Aims to Make Use of Humanity’s Genetic Outliers Bloomberg Businessweek, 5/28/20
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• Some economics nerds just realized how much climate change will cost us Grist, 10/3/19
• This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out Rolling Stone, 4/9/19
• The Key to a Long Life Has Little to Do With ‘Good Genes’ Wired, 11/6/18
• Ban entire pesticide class to protect children’s health, experts say The Guardian, 10//25/18
• Want to live for ever? Flush out your zombie cells The Guardian, 10/6/18
• Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria CNBC, 10/3/18. source: Effects of the Artificial Sweetener Neotame on the Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolites in Mice Molecules 23, 367, 2/9/18
• Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise Motherboard, 8/27/18. The report: Global Sustainable Development Report 2019 drafted by the Group of independent scientists Academy of Finland, 8/14/18
• The Ocean Cleanup Is Starting, Aims To Cut Garbage Patch By 90% By 2040 Forbes, 8/28/18
• How to edit a human The Economist, Aug 2018
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• A Huge Shift in Animal Behaviour Is Happening, And It’s Our Fault Scicnce Alert, 6/16/18
• People Are Getting Dumber: The Flynn Effect Goes Into Reverse Reason, 6/15/18. Original source: PNAS, 6/11/18

COVID-19 Epidemiological Projections for Penn State University under its current testing plan PSU faculty, 8/15/20

Managing the Risk From COVID-19 During a Return to On-Site University Research JASON, 7/2/20

A visual history of pandemics World Economic Forum, 3/15/20

• Three million child deaths linked to drug resistance, study shows BBC, 4/12/25
• A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history Bull.Atomic Scientists, 5/15/24
• Environmental Changes Are Fueling Human, Animal and Plant Diseases, Study Finds New York Times, 5/8/24
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• Coronavirus vaccines work. But this statistical illusion makes people think they don’t. Washington Post, 8/31/21
• One in three Americans had COVID-19 by the end of 2020, study estimates ScienceDaily, 8/26/21
• Did the Black Death Rampage Across the World a Century Earlier Than Previously Thought? Smithsonian, 3/25/21
• Disease outbreaks more likely in deforestation areas, study finds The Guardian, 3/24/21
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• Here's what brought history's worst pandemics to an end Grunge, 10/8/20
• Ice Core Offers Insight Into 20th-Century Spanish Flu Pandemic Archaology Inst. of America, 10/7/20
• Charting a Covid-19 Immune Response New York Times, 10/5/20
• In Brazil’s Amazon a COVID-19 resurgence dashes herd immunity hopes Reuters, 9/27/20
• The Plant Pandemics Just Keep on Coming The Atlantic, 9/27/20
• Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard IEEE Spectrum, 9/22/20
• How the modern world was shaped by epidemics 500 years ago The Conversations, 9/18/20
• What a smoky bar can teach us about the ‘6-foot rule’ during the COVID-19 pandemic The Conversation, 9/9/20
• One Meeting in Boston Seeded Tens of Thousands of Infections, Study Finds New York Times, 8/26/20. Source: Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in the Boston area highlights the role of recurrent importation and superspreading events MedRxiv, 8/26/20
• How the pandemic might play out in 2021 and beyond Nature 584, 22-25 8/5/20
• Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study The Guardian, 8/4/20
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• In defence of viruses The Conversation, 4/22/20
• Environmental Destruction Brought Us COVID-19. What It Brings Next Could Be Far Worse. Huffington Post, 4/21/20
• The Human Experiment in Herd Immunity Ohio is Unintentionally Running at Marion Prison> Empty Wheel, 4/20/20
• Fact check: Herd immunity would not fully stop the spread of coronavirus USA Toay, 4/18/20
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• Trump Wants to ‘Reopen America.’ Here’s What Happens if We Do. New York Times, 3/25/20. Includes a simple interactive model with adjustable paraneters.
• Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus Financial Times, 3/20/20
• Coronavirus Will Change the World Permanently. Here’s How. Politico, 3/19/20
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• OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why TechCrunch, 1/14/25
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• ‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse The Guardian, 2/17/24
• Robots are coming—and it doesn’t look pretty for workers. Get ready for long hours, less pay, and fewer jobs Fortune, 12/8/22
• AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating Vox, 11/28/22
• New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI—but loses to human amateurs Ars Technica, 11/7/22
• Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain MIT News, 11/2/22
• World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say CNN, 11/29/21
• Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). New York Times, 11/24/20
• GPT-3 Bot Posed as a Human on AskReddit for a Week Kmeme, 10/6/20
• This Guy is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can’t Invent Things Motherbord, 8/24/19
• The robot revolution has arrived National Geographic, 8/18/20
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Space Debris: Is it a Crisis? ESA, 4/1/25.

Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society International Astronomical Union, 12/29/20

The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S. ProPublica, 11/2/21

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• Climate change will make rice toxic, say researchers Ars Technica, 4/17/25
• Study finds microplastic contamination in 99% of seafood samples The Guardian, 2/3/25
• Levels of microplastics in human brains may be rapidly rising, study suggests The Guardian, 2/3/25
• In a First, the E.P.A. Warns of ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Sludge Fertilizer New York Times, 1/14/25
• Global push for cooperation as space traffic crowds Earth orbit Reuters, 12/1/24
• PFAS and microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows The Guardian, 11/25/24
• Inventory counts air pollution cost of space launches and re-entries The Guardian, 11/1/24
• Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega-Constellations Ferreira, J.P., 2024, GRL 51, 6/11/24
• Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds The Guardian, 4/19/24
• Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says NBC News, 3/7/22
• Microplastics found in every human placenta tested in study The Guardian, 2/27/24
• GPS interference now a major flight safety concern for airline industry The Register, 1/29/24
• NYC first to designate social media as environmental toxin Axios, 1/24/24
• ‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster The Guardian, 1/18/24
• The New Space Race Is Causing New Pollution Problems New York Times, 1/9/24
• Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy PNAS, 1/8/24
• Potential Perturbation of the Ionosphere by Megaconstellations and Corresponding Artificial Re-entry Plasma Dust arXiv, 12/6/23 Metals from spacecraft reentry in stratospheric aerosol particles PNAS, 10/16/23
• Yet another problem with recycling: It spews microplastics Wired, 5/7/23
• High concentrations of DDT found across vast swath of California seafloor The Guardian, 3/24/23
• Nearly everyone is exposed to unhealthy levels of tiny air pollutants, study says Washington Post, 3/6/23. Source: Yu, W. et al., Global estimates of daily ambient fine particulate matter concentrations and unequal spatiotemporal distribution of population exposure: a machine learning modelling study The Lancet Planetary Health 7, E209, March 2023
• Breathing is going to get tougher Science Daily, 2/28/23
• Eating one fish from U.S. lakes or rivers likened to drinking month''s worth of contaminated water CBS News, 1/17/23. Source: Barbo, N., et al. 2013, Locally caught freshwater fish across the United States are likely a significant source of exposure to PFOS and other perfluorinated compounds Environmental Research220, 115165
• 5.3 billion cell phones to become waste in 2022: report Phys Org, 10/13/22
• Plastic Might Be Making You Obese Washington Post, 9/12/22
• Special Report: How U.S. ethanol plants are allowed to pollute more than oil refineries Reuters, 9/8/22
• Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most Americans'' Urine USNews & World Report, 7/12/22
• ‘It’s a non-party political issue’: banning the weedkiller glyphosate The Guardian, 7/12/22
• Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work The Atlantic, 5/30/22
• Study finds cleaner air leads to more Atlantic hurricanes AP, 5/11/22
• Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of landfill waste Phys.Org, 4/27/22
• Billions of people still breathe unhealthy air: new WHO data World Health Organization, 4/4/22
• In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics New York Times, 4/3/22
• Chemical pollution has passed safe limit for humanity, say scientists The Guardian, 1/18/22. Source: Persson, L. et al. 2022, Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities, Environ. Sci. Technol.
• Microplastics cause damage to human cells, study shows The Guardian, 12/8/21
• Fighting food waste, one apple at a time Washington Post 11/17/21
• Chile’s Atacama Desert: Where Fast Fashion Goes to Die EcoWatch, 11/15/21
• Russia may have just shot down its own satellite, creating a huge debris cloud ArsTechnica, 11/15/21
• Chemicals used in packaging may play role in 100,000 US deaths a year – study The Guardian, 10/14/21
• Is Bad Indoor Air Dulling Your Brain? New York Times, 9/16/21
• Is global plastic pollution nearing an irreversible tipping point? ScienceDaily, 7/1/21
• Global warming is boiling our testicles, suggesting a new animal fertility crisis looms Salon, 5/26/21
• Study finds alarming levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in US mothers’ breast milk The Guardian, 5/13/21
• Chemical found in 1,000 processed foods may harm the immune system Live Science, 3/30/31
• Plastic particles pass from mothers into foetuses, rat study shows The Guardian, 3/18/21
• Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity, Erin Brockovich The Guardian, 3/18/21
• Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal The Guardian, 3/18/21
• US and UK citizens are world’s biggest sources of plastic waste – study The Guardian, 10/30/20
• A dead Soviet satellite and an old rocket booster could collide in space tonight CNN, 10/15/20
• Hidden cameras and secret trackers reveal where Amazon returns end up CBC, 10/10/20
• Hidden Beneath the Ocean’s Surface, Nearly 16 Million Tons of Microplastic New York Times, 10/7/20
• More than 14m tonnes of plastic believed to be at the bottom of the ocean The Guardian, 10/5/20
• Super-Enzyme Speeds Up Breakdown of Plastic, Researchers Say New York Times, 9/29/20
• It’s not just cars that make pollution. It’s the roads they drive on, too Science, 9/3/20
• Ozone across northern hemisphere increased over past 20 years Phys.Org, 8/21/20
• Loss of bees causes shortage of key food crops, study finds The Guardian, 7/29/20
• Caddis fly larvae are now building shelters out of microplastics Ars Technica, 5/8/20
• Air pollution falls by unprecedented levels in major global cities during coronavirus lockdowns CNN, 4/23/20
• Rising carbon dioxide causes more than a climate crisis -- it may directly harm our ability to think Sciencce Daily, 4/21/20. Source: Karnauskas, K.B., Miller, S.L. & Schapiro, A.C. "Fossil fuel combustion is driving indoor CO2 toward levels harmful to human cognition", GeoHealth, 2020; DOI: 10.1029/2019GH000237
• NASA Satellite Data Show 30 Percent Drop In Air Pollution Over Northeast U.S. NASA, 4/9/20
• Scientists Find Bacteria That Eats Plastic EcoWatch, 3/27/20
• Will the Global Response to the Coronavirus Give Climate a Nudge? Weather Underground, 3/23/20
• Traffic and Pollution Plummet as U.S. Cities Shut Down for Coronavirus New York Times, 3/22/20
• Coronavirus Lockdown May Save More Lives By Preventing Pollution Than By Preventing Infection Forbes, 3/11/20
• Smoking bans don’t prevent you having to breathe in smoke particles New Scientist, 3/4/20
• PLANET PLASTIC: How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades Rolling Stone, 3/3/20
• Airborne Nitrogen Dioxide Plummets Over China NASA, 3/2/20
• Are plastic containers safe for our food? The Guardian, 2/18/20
• Turning human bodies into compost works, a small trial suggests Science News, 2/16/20
• New commuter concern: Cancerous chemical in car seats Science Daily, 2/7/20
• Microplastics found in 90 percent of table salt National Geographic, 10/17/18
• Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic Smithsonian, 10/18/18
• Beer, Drinking Water And Fish: Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere NPR, 8/20/18. Source: Anthropogenic contamination of tap water, beer, and sea salt PLOS-one, 4/11/18
• Plastic eating microbes to the rescue: evolution may be finding a solution to the problem of plastic waste Treehugger, 3/20/18
• Plastic Pollution Is Killing Coral Reefs, 4-Year Study Finds NPR, 1/25/18. See also Billions of Plastic Pieces Litter Coral in Asia and Australia New York Times, 1/25/18. Original Reference Science, 1/26/18

Studies by two UN/IAU-sponsored working groups recommend new guidelines IAU3/19/25

Dark and Quiet Skies for Science and Society International Astronomical Union, 12/29/20

The New World Atlas of Artificial Sky Brightness CIRES, 6/10/21

• Space Debris: Is it a Crisis? ESA, 4/1/25.
• Headlights seem a lot brighter these days — because they are CBC News, 12/24/24
• SpaceX’s new direct-to-cell Starlink satellites are way brighter than the originals Space.com, 8/6/24. Source: Brightness Characterization for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellites Mallama, A. et al. 2024, arXiv 2407.03092, 7/3/24
• Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds The Guardian, 7/3/24
• Stargazer’s paradise: Oregon area named world’s largest dark sky sanctuary The Guardian, 3/15/24
• How Astronomers Are Saving Astronomy From Satellites — For Now New York Times, 1/9/24
• Befouling the Final Frontier New York Times, 11/5/23
• A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky New York Times, 10/2/23
• Hubble Telescope Faces Threat From SpaceX and Other Companies’ Satellites New York Times, 3/2/23
• Light pollution rapidly reducing number of stars visible to naked eye, study finds The Guardian, 1/19/23
• Astronomers say a new, huge satellite is as bright as the brightest stars Ars Technica, 12/1/22
• Ad-block this: Advertisers ready to hit you with commercials from space SpaceDaily, 10/6/22
• Increase in LED lighting ‘risks harming human and animal health’ The Guardian, 9/14/22
• New research reveals the circadian clock influences cell growth, metabolism and tumor progression PhysOrg, 8/10/22
• When Fireflies Await a Night That Never Comes New York Times, 8/11/22
• Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees, lengthening pollen season in US cities The Conversation , 7/12/22
• Sleeping with even a little bit of light isn''t good for your health, study shows NPR, 4/1/22
• Light exposure during sleep impairs cardiometabolic function Mason, I.C. et al., 2022, PNAS 119, 3/14/22
• Pittsburgh Introduces First-in-the-Nation Dark Sky Lighting Legislation for Energy and Environmental Sustainability 8/24/21
• A Report to ESO Council On The Impact of Satellite Constellations SpaceRef, 8/10/21. Full Report: The Impact of Satellite Constellations, ESO, 8/10/21
• Philadelphia calls for 'lights out' after skyscrapers cause hundreds of bird deaths The Guardian, 3/12/21
• Amazon Satellites Add to Astronomers’ Worries About the Night Sky New York Times, 8/10/20
• Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects MSN, 8/6/20
• Bankrupt OneWeb seeks license for 48,000 satellites, even more than SpaceX, Ars Technica, 5/27/20
• SpaceX’s Starlink satellites will soon get glare-reducing 'sunshades,' Elon Musk says Live Science, 4/25/20. See also Tregloan-Reed, J. et al. 2020, First observations and magnitude measurement of Starlink’s Darksat Astronomy & Astrophysics, accepted.
• Understanding the Impact of Satellite Constellations on Astronomy International Astronomical Union, 2/12/20
• Light pollution is key 'bringer of insect apocalypse' The Guardian, 11/22/19
• IAU Statement on Satellite Constellations International Astronomical Union, 6/3/19
• Fat Cells Can Sense Light, Animal Study Shows Sci News, 1/28/20
• Daily exposure to blue light may accelerate aging, even if it doesn’t reach your eyes ScienceDaily, 10/17/19. Source: Nash, T.R. et al. 2019, Daily blue-light exposure shortens lifespan and causes brain neurodegeneration in Drosophila Nature Aging and Mechanisms of Disease 5, 8
• How Flagstaff, Arizona, switched to LEDs without giving astronomers a headache Ars Technica, 10/11/19
• Light pollution: How does it impact people? Futurism, 4/8/13