Energy & Decarbonization Stories
Capping and/or mitigating global warming requires a rapid shift to low-carbon socio-economic systems. From stories about scaling up renewable energy to pioneering work in solar fuels to carbon capture and storage technologies, Anthropocene magazine aims to be a leading voice in the conversation about this great transition.
Waste management hasn’t been thought of as a climate change solution. No longer.
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers calculated how shovel-ready waste-handling technologies could quickly hit the brakes on global warming.
Has Wind Power Blown It?
Financial headwinds could be a passing storm or a long-term headache for the carbon-free energy source.
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.
First-of-their-kind maps show that biochar from crop residues could lock up 510 MMT of carbon
And that was the researchers’ more conservative estimate.
People drive EVs less than gas-powered cars, and that’s a problem
We may be overestimating the emissions savings from EVs and under-utilizing them to reap benefits, a new study finds.
Should we retire the climate villain narrative?
Simple stories pack a persuasive punch, but they might be stifling our climate creativity
Parking garages are a huge wasted heat source
Waste heat from over 5,000 underground parking lots in Berlin could meet the demand of of 14,660 average German households, scientists found, while helping improve groundwater quality and biodiversity
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.
Detailed home carbon audits are hard to come by. But AI can prioritize retrofits with little data
Researchers trained a deep learning model to make decisions based on widely available open-source building images
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
