Nicola Jones

Here are the pieces I commissioned, edited and published so far this year for Knowable magazine The creative way to pay for wildlife recovery Make electric vehicles affordable for the rest of us The first malaria vaccine is a leap forward, but we can’t stop now Don’t let climate change take all the blame The next evolution of digital money? It’s happening now Pandemic psychology: Nothing new under the Sun The science of placebos is fuelling quackery How to short-circuit short-term thinking The vicious cycle of food and sleep and... this one too, though it ended up in Nature The perils of machine learning in designing new chemicals and materials

I have been doing a lot of editing for Nature this year. Here are a few pieces that I helped to develop and publish: Cement and Steel: nine steps to zero       This piece lays out the best ways to whittle down emissions from some of our dirtiest (and most vital) industries. Stop squandering data: make units of measurement machine readable     Many research papers and data tables are sloppy with their units or don't include units at all, leaving people, computers and AI baffled by what they mean. Floating solar power could help fight climate change — let’s get it right Are we running out of room to put solar panels, and are reservoirs the best spot to put them? Maybe. But more research is needed on the environmental side-effects.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed 30 years ago this June. Three decades ago. Yet humanity still has not bent the curve of our greenhouse gas emissions.  It can be hard to remember the history of humanity's struggle with climate change: when did rising CO2 and temperatures become apparent? When did action start? And why, after all this time, are we so far from hitting the targets we need to prevent dramatic warming?  Knowable magazine had the idea to track this history against something more familiar: one person's life. Arun Agrawal, born in 1962 when Silent Spring was published and climate change wasn't yet on the agenda, has seen 3 decades before the UNFCCC and 3 decades since, living in India and the United States, working on issues of climate and sustainability. Have a look at the history of climate change through his eyes.   https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/lifetime-climate-change