Which protein is best for the planet and your health?
A new rating system combines a “planet score” and a “people score” to see past confusing eco-labels. Tofu came out on top, and steak and cheese at the bottom.
There’s more than one answer to these questions.
What do you get when you cross ecology, acoustics, and artificial intelligence?
A wholesale revolution in wildlife science
The case for co-locating offshore wind parks and nature reserves
Wind parks could benefit the natural world—in ways beyond the generation of zero-carbon energy.
It's time to upgrade not just our technology, but also our collective imagination.
Discover Anthropocene’s newest and most forward-looking project: Climate reporting from the future. Live story-telling events and online stories.
How are corporations doing on emission pledges? First the good news. Then the bad.
A rare quantitative analysis gives corporate climate initiatives a mixed report card
Which European political parties have the most ambitious climate policies?
Spoiler: They are surprisingly similar in ambition—but they also all share the same blind spot.
Ammonia-secreting bacteria bring us closer to a world free of industrial fertilizers
Scientists have engineered bacteria that release ammonia, in quantities high enough to feed rice plants
Food scientists devise a clever way to recycle beer waste into food and fuel
By extracting the proteins and fibers in spent grain, researchers show that we can drink our beer and eat it too
An unexpected green roof benefit: purging urban rainfall of practically all microplastics
In a laboratory-scale study, green roof mockups kept 97.5 percent of microplastic particles out of runoff
A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate
Researchers have built the first refrigerant-free system to reach sub-zero temperatures, a breakthrough that could reduce food waste and greenhouse gas emissions.
Beaver-engineered habitats are outperforming ours
Two studies find that beaver-engineered wetlands attract twice as many hoverflies, nearly 50% more butterflies, and a richer variety of bats compared to human-made ponds or free-flowing streams.
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Kate Gammon
What if the future of mining looked like a farm?
Peter Fairley
Shipping solar power at the speed of a freight train
Emily Anthes
Amphibious architecture responds to floods like ships to a rising tide, floating on the water’s surface.
Oliver Morton
The godlike powers of geoengineering irrevocably change the human’s relationship with Planet Earth.
Veronique Greenwood
AI is making an adventurous and sustainable plant diet possible
Andrew Revkin
The word “anthropocene” has become the closest thing there is to common shorthand for this turbulent, momentous, unpredictable, hopeless, hopeful time—duration and scope still unknown.
Gregory Barber
Heat percolates upward from the Earth’s core everywhere in the world. So why can’t geothermal power be tapped everywhere, too?
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