Which is better for climate: creating a new forest or a new solar farm?
In a side-by-side comparison, researchers found that it makes more sense to cover the drier parts of the world with solar panels than new forests.
Shipwrecks have a serendipitous second life as barriers to destructive fishing
Sunken ships creates obstacles for bottom-trawling, creating a refuge for marine creatures.
An inspired type of armor for microbes could reduce the need for chemical fertilizers
Drawing on technology that protects drugs as they pass through the human body, scientists have found a way to seal nitrogen-fixing bacteria so that it can withstand high temperatures and humidity for months.
Has Wind Power Blown It?
Financial headwinds could be a passing storm or a long-term headache for the carbon-free energy source.
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Resetting carbon offsets from the bottom up
Inside one quest to restore tarnished carbon markets, one family forest at a time
The World Is Our Battery
BatteryBatteries don’t have to be small or even portable. Here are five ambitious technologies that store energy in the rocks, water, and air all around us.
Contrary to popular belief, the cost of ditching fossil fuels may fall on those who can most afford it
In the US, aggressive climate action could strand $350 billion of fossil fuel assets—two-thirds of the losses would fall on the wealthiest top 10% a new study finds.
Using lasers, water and air, team takes the quest for green fertilizer to a whole new level
The discovery involved air-zapping lasers that made fertilizer almost 40 times more efficiently than conventional methods.
Can local food feed an urban world?
Researchers dig into the efficacy of urban agriculture
What if carbon taxes were based on income linked to emissions—rather than consumption?
A new study suggests that a shareholder-based carbon tax might be more effective than a consumer-based one.
The Circular Economy Made Real
In more and more pockets of the industrial landscape, the byproducts of one process are becoming the raw materials for another, trash is getting a useful second life, and waste is becoming a thing of the past.
All forests are not equal in the carbon count
To clean up our carbon mess, we don’t just need more forests, we need better forests in the right places
Is a luxury carbon tax a fair and equitable way to tackle climate change?
Two new studies make a consistent case for targeting high-end energy use and energy inequality to reduce carbon emissions
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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