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Stealing Forest Clouds?
Our eLetter to Science, and why local cooling over Amazon clearings should not become a message that deforestation offsets warming
 • Anastassia Makarieva
The Second Steam Power Revolution
From Burning Coal to Blowing Winds and Creating Clouds: How Forests Power Climate Stability
 • Dayana Andrade
Atmosphere as a Steam Engine: New Results
I love my work!
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Simplicity and Complexity, Doing and Non-Doing, Restoring and Preserving
A StoryMoss conversation with John D. Liu and Anastassia Makarieva, in anticipation of the Global Earth Repair Convergence
 • Anastassia Makarieva
China at an Ecohydrological Crossroads, Part III: New Perspectives
How ecosystem recover dynamics can change long-term projections of China's water cycle
 • Anastassia Makarieva

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China at an Ecohydrological Crossroads, Part II: Common Assumptions
When vegetation is assumed to affect water use but not air circulation, re-greening is predicted to reduce water yield by construction, regardless of…
 • Anastassia Makarieva
China at an Ecohydrological Crossroads, Part I: Basic Notions
What We Do and Do Not Know About Re-Greening Impacts on the Water Cycle
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Biotic Pump Q&A #3: Bringing Water to Drier Landscapes
On the positive and negative roles of human interventions
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Science Insider #3: Contrasting Perspectives on Disagreements
Progress in science slows down when disagreements are mishandled
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Can Collapse Be Avoided? Part I: Learning from the Biosphere How to Handle Inequality
Biospheric insights into whether the brutal collapse of societies is the normal human trajectory—or whether more stable forms of civilized existence are…
 • Anastassia Makarieva
Sharing Land With Trees
An essay on global climatic implications of forest-human coexistence
 • Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov, and Ugo Bardi
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