Engineers use sticky tape to generate electricity
Simple energy harvester made with store-bought double-sided tape can light up a string of LEDs, hinting at bright future for low-cost sustainable power
The underappreciated importance of wildlife in restoring tropical forests
A new study on the topic uncovered some surprises, such as the leading role of flightless mammals in spreading rainforest seeds.
Now, ammonia disappears in sewage. It could be repurposed as a revolutionary green fertilizer.
A new analysis shows that a technology called ‘air-stripping’ produces 5 to 10 times less greenhouse gas emissions than the Haber-Bosch process—at a far lower cost.
As Europe offshores carbon cuts, is it a win-win or climate colonialism?
Switzerland wants to pay for Ghana’s decarbonization efforts.
It's time to upgrade not just our technology, but also our collective imagination.
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The Upcycled Car by Mark Harris
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Enhanced Rock Weathering by Dan Ferber
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Artificial Intelligence and Decarbonization
New experiments are pushing artificial intelligence and sensor networks into the grid—and into factories, data centers, and transit systems—in order to pull fossil fuels out.
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The indoor biome covers as much as six percent of the world’s landmass—and we know almost nothing about it.
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Could rewilding help prevent big wildfires?
When people look to nature for solutions to wildfires made bigger, hotter, and more dangerous by climate change, they tend to focus on vegetation—not animals. Yet evidence suggests that big plant-eaters may help prevent fire.
Algae powers computer for a year using only light and water
Made of common, inexpensive, and non-toxic materials, an algae-powered battery could be a sustainable option for powering electronics
This enzyme-coated cotton offers a low-tech way to capture CO2
A team of chemists envision scaling up their new filter to smokestack size, where it can turn carbon dioxide into bicarbonate, aka baking soda
Eyes on the High Seas
Illegal fishing is getting harder, thanks to public surveillance from space
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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