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Sharing Land With Trees
An essay on global climatic implications of forest-human coexistence
 • Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov, and Ugo Bardi
An Old-Growth Biotic Pump Enviro Show
Listen to the conversation — or read the full transcript — with Massachusetts forest activists Don Ogden and Glen Ayers, hosts of the Enviro Show…
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Biotic Pump Q&A #2: The Dual Role of Condensation
Why forests need both the precipitation mass sink and latent heat release to drive atmospheric moisture transport.
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Are Climate Models Too Coarse?
Or do they have a different problem—and why that matters for the preservation of the biosphere.
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Science Insider #2: Working Our Path Forward Through Rain and Hurricane Wind
Hurricanes can serve as toy models for understanding how forests can move atmospheric water. The precipitation mass sink is underexplored—why is its…
 • Anastassia Makarieva

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On Nature's Complexity and Human Morality
Rationalizing the limits of rational knowledge: stocks and flows of information in the biosphere and human civilization
 • Anastassia Makarieva
A New Year's Eve Post
Miscellaneous Reflections: Physics and Ecology, Negative and Positive Bargaining, Gratitude, Humility and Noble Rage
 • Anastassia Makarieva
The Small and the Big: Life's Fundamental Energetic Dichotomy
A biotic regulation perspective on Nate Hagens’ Behavioral Thermodynamics: the Maximum Power Principle, and how life defends itself against its biggest…
 • Anastassia Makarieva
A Major Climate Unknown: Natural Ecosystems
We do not even recognize the existence of a parallel universe: natural ecosystems. Yet understanding their role in climate stability is essential for…
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Do We Need an Incubator for Disruptive Eco-Hydro-Climatology?
My contribution to UNESCO's Green Water Dialogue.
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Ecosystem Collapse and Extreme Weather Events — in That Order
A Link Persistently Missing from the Climate Change Narrative
 • Anastassia Makarieva
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