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"While we destroy the natural world around us, we have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial ‘experience’ of nature—a reassuring spectacle, an illusion." Over six years, across four continents...

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Read the full story at Anthropocene Magazine. See also: Meireles, J. P., Hahn-Klimroth, M., Lackey, L. B., Van Eeuwijk, N., Bertelsen, M. F., Dressen, S., Dierkes, P. W., Abraham, A. J., & Clauss, M. (2026). Aging populations threaten conservation goals of zoos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(5), e2522274123.  As reproduction slows and populations gray, scientists warn that many zoos are losing their capacity to function as effective conservation tools.

Nudging aircraft onto slightly different paths to avoid contrail formation could slash climate warming due to aviation over the next 25 years almost in half, according to a new study. The analysis suggests the main risk lies in not acting fast enough. Contrail avoidance “represents a clear, near-term climate opportunity for aviation and swift, coordinated international action could make a meaningful difference,” says study team member Jessie Smith, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge in the UK. The climate impact of contrails is intense: the crisp lines of cloud that trace the paths of jumbo jets through the sky are currently estimated to be responsible for the same amount of warming as the aviation industry’s entire history of carbon emissions. But contrails are also ephemeral, raising hopes that simply rerouting aircraft a bit could be a powerful – and immediately effective – climate strategy. The problem is that we can’t predict with certainty where conditions will be right for contrails to form, so we don’t know exactly what parts of the sky to tell aircraft to avoid. And changing flight paths can cause aircraft to burn more fuel and thus produce more carbon emissions, eroding the strategy’s climate...