Protecting fish biodiversity is a win-win solution for human nutrition and sustainable fisheries, finds a new study. The research, published in Nature Sustainability, unearthed some interesting ...

A tablespoon of clay has about the same surface area as a football field; With a little tweaking, it can soak up as much CO2 ...

The beaks of Anna's hummingbirds in California grew longer as people started hanging artificial feeders, according to new ...

After sorting through 1 million material samples, an AI tool has found 19 ideal materials to reduce concrete’s emissions and ...

Poor cows. They get smeared with blame for causing an unseemly amount of climate-warming methane emissions. The waste they create is a growing pollution problem too. Farms produce more manure than ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Rocks are one of nature’s tools for trapping carbon dioxide from air and permanently locking it away. The silicate minerals found in certain rocks react with ...

Producing food for the world has an environmental cost. Not just from water and energy use, but also the carbon footprint of fertilizer. Producing ammonia, the key ingredient of fertilizer, results ...

If you like home runs, you’ll love climate change. As the temperature rises, air resistance goes down. Researchers at Dartmouth College have calculated that human-caused warming led to 58 extra home ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Researchers have employed an unlikely organism—fungi—to make a new type of biodegradable battery. The new 3D-printed fungal battery produces enough ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Replacing traditional plastics with those that degrade in the ocean would reduce harm to marine animals and the environment. And now, scientists at the Wood ...