A new life-cycle analysis reveals that bio-based plastics are better for the climate but worse for biodiversity. The greenest ...

As airlines test new routes and researchers refine models, contrails are shifting from an afterthought of flight to a ...

As airlines test new routes and researchers refine models, contrails are shifting from an afterthought of flight to a ...

A new experiment shows biochar survives cow digestion largely intact, potentially turning cattle into a vehicle for spreading ...

The two big electrification tools are not delivering on emissions, researchers say. Countries need to prioritize renewables, ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A major reason straws, plastic bags and yogurt containers aren’t recycled is that it’s much cheaper to make these products from scratch than to recover them.

Bacteria munching on waste bread release hydrogen that could run chemical reactions, providing a carbon-negative way to ...

Computer simulations reveal that spraying sea salt aerosols may keep global temperatures near 2020 levels as air pollution ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Tropical rainforests get that name because it rains a lot in these places. But they deserve it for another reason as well: They make rain. By absorbing water ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. The Yangtze River has long been an emblem of the ecological toll of China’s modernization. Since the 1950s, dam-building, mining, industrial pollution and ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Nudging aircraft onto slightly different paths to avoid contrail formation could slash climate warming due to aviation over the next 25 years almost in half, ...