Mushroom leather may finally be ready for mass production
Plastic-free, ethical leather alternatives that perform like the real thing are hard to make. Researchers may have cracked the code to produce such materials on large scale.
Even the sound equivalent of a library can detract from the health benefits of listening to nature.
In a new study, people who listened to audio recordings of birds singing report getting less benefit when paired with even quiet traffic sounds.
Intensive farming may yield a bumper crop of drug-resistant pathogens
Researchers find that changing the use of tilling, fertilizers, and chemicals could reshape the microbiomes of farm soils—reducing the emergence of drug-resistant pathogens.
To sort or not to sort your recyclables—which is the better climate bet?
Europe bet on sorting discipline, America bet on convenience, and the climate math is still being settled.
Issue #8
Greener Steel Through Chemistry
By Stephen Robert Miller
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The Future of the Grid Could Be Parked in Your Driveway
By Sarah DeWeerdt
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What if the future of mining looked like a farm?
By Kate Gammon
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An Act of God. Payable Upon Impact.
By Emma Bryce
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Nuclear power is in a hole. To get out, this start-up kept digging
By Mark Ellis Harris
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Pyrodiversity
The idea is pretty much what it sounds like. The trick is to get from here to there.
The human population curve is on the move
Demography teaches an important lesson about population explosions: they are always temporary
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.
The media covers only a narrow slice of climate research—one that inspires fear over action
Climate change research is much more diverse than what the public hear from in the media, new study finds.
EV batteries are getting better faster than the climate is getting worse
Concerns about EV performance in extreme heat waves might be a thing of the past, thanks to improvements in battery technology, researchers show.
What you eat matters as much as where you eat it.
A new analysis of 3,500 US cities reveals that the carbon “hoofprint” of meat can vary more than threefold depending on where it’s produced—and where it’s eaten.
This thermal cloak keeps things cool when it’s hot, and warm when it’s cold…no electricity required.
A dual-layer fabric acts like clothes for vehicles, buildings, and even spacecrafts, regulating their temperature and reducing energy use.
Using supercomputers, scientists bring climate measurements down to eye-level for critters
With data from over 1,000 sensors across Europe—and running as much as half a quadrillion calculations per second—the team has created exquisitely detailed maps pinpointing cool habitat oases in a warming planet
Air quality monitors could be accidental eDNA vacuums . . .and a goldmine for ecologists
When the scientists combed through filters from just 2 stations, they found eDNA from newts, hedgehogs, songbirds, trees and more—over 180 species in all.
This ‘living paint’ traps carbon dioxide and produces oxygen
By encasing bacteria in a tough but porous coating, researchers have made paint that could be used to capture carbon and produce biofuels
David Quammen
What if evolution isn’t linear, as Charles Darwin proposed when he first sketched the tree of life?
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.
Frances Cairncross
What is the optimal rollout of carbon taxes and research subsidies to speed up the transition to a low-carbon economy?
David Biello
Welcome to the brave new world of artificial intelligence for conservation.
Veronique Greenwood
The rise of fast fashion and the technology that needs to change to keep your clothes out of the garbage.
Fred Pearce
Some economies may be quietly, and surprisingly approaching a phenomenon economists call “peak stuff.
Akshat Rathi
What if we could transform cement from a climate wrecker into a carbon sponge?
Ted Nordhaus
The climate change apocalypse problem
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
Vandana Singh
How might science fiction constructively contribute to the Human Age?
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