For most countries, there’s a clear smart move to achieve energy security and reduce trade risks
When researchers looked at the trade-off between reducing dependence on imported fossil fuels and increasing dependence on minerals for clean energy, decarbonization was the big win.
What if we turned the food waste problem on its head—and made it a climate solution?
A new study finds that each tonne of food waste recycled, with existing technologies, would reduce carbon emissions by roughly a corresponding tonne.
Teenage fish on drugs take more risks, too.
New study offers some of the most compelling real-world evidence yet that pharmaceutical pollution is messing with wildlife behavior and habitat.
Is the AI juice worth the carbon squeeze?
Data centers’ thirst for energy looms as the next big climate provocation
The human population curve is on the move
Demography teaches an important lesson about population explosions: they are always temporary
Nuclear power is in a hole. To get out, this start-up kept digging
They’re betting that they can take the cost out of nuclear power—and solve it’s waste problem — by putting small reactors a mile underground.
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.
Does a 4-Day Work Week Reduce Your Carbon Footprint?
Or do we all need to work smarter, not just shorter, to do the most good?
In a back-to-the-future move researchers use a compound in candles for grid energy storage
With this organic molecule, inexpensive, environmentally-friendly flow batteries could hold more energy and last longer
Researchers hit on an unexpected tool to extract 80% of protein from beer waste: microwaves
Spent barley, which amounts to 36.4 million tons of landfill waste each year, could provide an alternative to meat protein—and simultaneously tackle food waste.
Get Ready for Sticker Shock Carbon Therapy
Carbon labeling shifts consumer behavior. But does that actually translate to fewer emissions?
We’re over-freezing our food. Turning up the temperature slightly could avoid 17 Mt of CO2
The international freezing standard for food is -18 °C, a temperature that carries a huge emissions cost. What if we increased that to -15 °C?
Shipwrecks have a serendipitous second life as barriers to destructive fishing
Sunken ships creates obstacles for bottom-trawling, creating a refuge for marine creatures.
In the hunt for somewhere to put an ark of Earth’s biodiversity, scientists look to the Moon.
Frigid corners of the Moon could provide an ideal place to store cells from virtually every species on Earth.
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
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