Climate Change Stories
From stories about pioneering work in solar fuels and carbon capture, to building resilient coastal infrastructure, to how the insurance industry is rewriting risk management strategies, Anthropocene magazine aims to be a leading voice in the conversation about the global transition to decarbonized economies.
The green revolution may be turning purple
The synthetic fertilizers behind the Green Revolution come at a steep climate cost. A sunlight-powered purple microbe just matched them in a 2-year field trial.
Solar panels have (another) surprising side effect: Stopping dust storms in their tracks
In a first, researchers realistically calculated how solar farms in the Gobi Desert improve air quality in northern Chinese cities
From sundae to solvents: Chemists find a way to recycle mountains of industrial ice cream waste
The same proteins that keep a frozen pint smooth also make its fat hard to recover. A research team found an inexpensive way around the problem.
Clothes that cool you, warm you—and make power as you move
In a bid to cool people, not rooms, engineers made a printable fabric that turns body motion into electrical signals that switch on cooling and heating when you need it.
A 100-year-old freezer rule has a hidden climate cost
Frozen food worldwide is still kept at −18°C (0°F). Raising that by just three degrees could avoid 17 million tons of emissions a year, and an 18-month study found most foods stay safe and tasty.
Engineers just mapped a narrow path to greener flying
Flying behind commercial jets, a team pinpointed the exact combination of fuel and engine technology that cuts both soot and the contrails warming the planet.
Researchers had a hunch about how to solve the climate problem caused by wastewater treatment
Scientists expected their artificial floating wetland to help only after cleaning the water. Instead, greenhouse gas emissions dropped months earlier, and nobody is sure exactly why.
What happens to the world’s farms if everyone eats less meat?
Researchers ran the numbers on a worldwide sustainable-diet transition—and found a food system that looks nothing like today’s.
Building codes are holding back low-carbon concrete. A new study shows why.
Building standards treat all concrete the same, hindering the use of greener concrete, but climate conditions play a much bigger role in determining a structure’s durability
The fix for EV battery waste isn’t recycling. It’s geography.
Retired EV batteries and clean-energy demand are on opposite sides of China. Reuniting them could be one of decarbonisation’s cheapest wins.
