Mary Hoff

Contributions

• From disappearing kelp to mosquito-murdering fungi, a 2020 look at emerging biodiversity and conservation issues
• From Tibetan weather engineering to Earth insurance, these 15 trends have big implications for biodiversity in 2019
• Insect populations are declining around the world. How worried should we be?
• Watch: Who holds the solution to microfiber pollution?
• The energy transition will have winners and losers. Which will you be?
• The way we power our lives is undergoing a huge transition. How can we minimize the pain and maximize the gain?
• Disease from the deep freeze and 14 other emerging conservation issues to watch for in 2018
• The leaves on the tree of life are almost all microbes
• To avoid climate catastrophe, we’ll need to remove CO2 from the air. Here’s how.
• When life hands you weeds, make weed art
• The future of food production in 12 charts
• From electronic noses to invasive bees, 15 surprising trends for 2017
• Ellen Williams: The future of energy innovation
• The most threatened ecosystem you’ve never heard of
• The average North American uses 8 elephants’ worth of stuff
• What does climate change mean for America’s $73 billion angling industry?
• Northern shipping: Is the anticipated climate boost a bust?
• Imagine a podcast from a federal agency. Then listen to this.
• Is biodiversity the best medicine?
• Five lessons for universities hoping to shape a more sustainable world
• Top trends conservationists should be paying attention to — but aren’t
• 10 ways to build more sustainable cities
• Three Ensia features make list of notable science stories
• Pavel Kabat: Bringing science to the SDGs
• What really drives water vulnerability
• If everybody hates wasting food, why do we do it (and how can we stop)?
• When planting trees does more harm than good
• How big should urban green spaces be?
• Inviting nature indoors
• Are schools teaching our children to waste food?
• Extreme Makeover: Photosynthesis Edition
• Is our ability to predict floods drying up?
• Is organic farming climate friendly?
• If you know what’s good for you, you’ll read this under a tree
• Environmental restoration is big business
• We’ll cross that bridge when we … nevermind
• What do you get when you cross a musician with a cause?
• Envision 2050: The future of oceans
• How to reach zero net greenhouse gas emissions in three steps
• How old will you be when the oil runs out?
• A win for farmers and the environment
• The 11 most important forests in the world
• 46 million tons of trash — or treasure?
• Nikhil Seth: A new vision for sustainable development
• Better photosynthesis for a better world?
• Shining light on environmental injustice
• Water woes — and winners
• What works for worms
• Peak (almost) everything
• Seeds of change in sub-Saharan Africa
• Gaia Vince: Searching for solutions
• Efrat Peled: Good Business
• Corporations and Carbon Pricing
• Planting Trees to Fight Ozone
• What Are Birds Trying to Tell Us?
• Conservation Crime-Stoppers
• Old News
• Robert Bullard: The Father of Environmental Justice
• How’s My Waterway?
• Share and Share Alike
• What can an engineer learn from a tortoise?
• Better for Biodiversity
• This Website Will Make Your Head Spin
• Joseph Keefe: Sustainable Investing
• Connecting Health and Environment Data Dots
• 12-Step Plan for Climate-Friendly Food
• When Spending Less on Green Energy Is Good
• Model Behavior
• Envision 2050: The future of transportation
• Screen for Safer Chemicals
• Filtering for Free
• Jonathon Porritt: The World We Made
• Up to the Challenge?
• Where in the World?
• Growing Up
• We (Heart) Innovation
• Rays of Hope
• Plastic Bank
• Conservation Crystal Ball
• How to Be Interdisciplinary
• Backyard Nuclear?
• Tenzin Priyadarshi: How can we find hope?
• Energy in Motion
• The Gift of Indigenous Knowledge
• Risky Savings
• Pasta la Vista
• Old Friends
• Meaningful Prosperity
• Not About Money
• The Value of Water
• Making Light of Gravity
• Premal Shah: Loans that Change Lives
• Think Like an Octopus
• The Worth of a Tree
• Dating Game
• 2030
• Johan Rockström: Protecting the Earth’s systems from catastrophic failure
• The Papaya Cure
• 3-D Sustainability
• Enric Sala: Can We Eat Our Fish and Protect Them, Too?
• Jonathan Patz: Meeting the Health-related Millennium Development Goals
• Conservation Biology for All
• WaterCredit
• Power Walk
• Making Bigger Better
• Good Sports
• By GRACE We See the Water of the Earth
• Tomorrow’s Storytellers
• Weathering the Storm
• Double Duty Development
• Hold the Fins
• Can mining be sustainable?
• Boost for Desert Soils?
• Femke Groothuis: How Taxes Can Save the World
• Silent Green
• Pierre Ferrari: Taking Stock at Heifer International
• Flower Power
• A Measure of Well-Being
• Configuring Conservation
• Agriculture Meets Architecture
• Harvesting Ocean Plastics
• Steve Howard: IKEA-Style Sustainability
• Vital Signs
• Brick Tricks
• May Boeve: Changing Climate Change
• Sound Power
• In the Know About H2O
• Backpack Farms
• Goldilocks Resilience
• Fatih Birol: Our Global Energy Future
• Tapped Out
• New Life for Old Textbooks
• Think Beyond Plastic
• Conservation: The Sequel
• Felix Dodds: The Future of Sustainable Development
• Iain Couzin and the Science of Flocking
• Ecopost Turns Trash to Treasure
• Paul Matteucci: How to Feed 10 Billion
• William McDonough: Remaking the Way We Make Things
• Encyclopedia of Life
• Big Challenges, Promising Solutions
• Mohamed Nasheed: An Island Nation Faces Rising Seas
• Hot Stuff
• Walk on Watts
• Spreadable Solar
• Gretchen Daily: What Is Nature Worth?