China’s unprecedented fishing ban is reversing years of biodiversity loss in the Yangtze, raising questions about the ...

According to a comprehensive modeling study, the climate benefits of contrail avoidance depend on speed, not perfection ...

Wheat straw and rice husks already appear in niche construction products. A new study explores the global climate effects if ...

Stub, toss, out of sight. Cigarette butts are things people don’t give a second thought, but they are the most common plastic ...

A host of agricultural challenges—crops’ vulnerability to drought, massive nitrogen pollution and greenhouse gas emissions—share one elegant solution: getting plants to grow longer, deeper roots. It ...

Rising gas prices prevented the development of 4.19 million acres of forest and agricultural land in the U.S. between 2000 and 2015, according to a new study. The findings enhance understanding of the ...

Concrete slabs, beams, columns and other elements from dismantled buildings can be safely reused in new construction, according to a new study. The analysis could facilitate incorporating ...

Nearly a million minutes of recorded sound suggest that paying people to protect forests can restore the complex acoustic signatures of biodiversity. Programs around the world have tried to harness ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. As polar bears across the Arctic watch their sea ice habitat disappear, here’s something they might be wishing for: A one-way ticket to Norway’s Svalbard ...

There are no great solutions to the problem of throwaway plastics. They can clog up landfills for centuries, or get dumped into rivers and break down into toxic microplastics. Incineration produces ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Researchers have developed a battery recycling technique that recovers 95% of the battery’s lithium using only carbon dioxide and water. The process also ...