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Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team6h ago
Researchers have given wallpapers a purpose beyond aesthetics. In a new paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, a team of engineers from Binghamton University reports a...
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall1d ago
Coyotes, it seems, prefer the roar of the garbage truck to the call of the wild. While pigeons, rats and cockroaches might be more emblematic city-dwelling wildlife, coyotes have shown an aptitude...
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt2d ago
Solar farms in desert areas could reduce dust pollution in cities downwind, according to a new Chinese study.
Anthropocene Magazineby Douglas Fox6d ago
It’s unnatural to toss a fully loaded ice cream cone in the trash, but every year more than 500,000 tons of ice cream waste are thrown away by factories around the world.
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team7d ago
In a world of rising temperatures and growing energy needs, a new material made by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign could be just the answer.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall8d ago
In 2025, the Amazon rainforest shrank by exactly 1.63 million hectares. But nobody can say how much wildlife vanished with it.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt9d ago
The average child born in the UK in the 1950s was toilet trained by the age of two years and four months.
Anthropocene Magazineby Douglas Fox13d ago
Sit down to a plate of freezer-burned broccoli and beef, and the experience of chewing this mummified cardboard will remind you of a basic truth: unless you store your food in liquid nitrogen, it...
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team14d ago
Flying is one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions, according to the European Commission.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall15d ago
Planting a tree in the Amazon does a lot less for the rainforest than simply leaving one alone. That’s the uncomfortable arithmetic in new research on Brazil’s jungles.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt16d ago
Wetland plants grown on the surface of wastewater treatment lagoons can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from these water bodies by more than one-quarter, according to a new study.
Anthropocene Magazineby Douglas Fox20d ago
Picture a world where half the planet’s cattle ranches simply aren’t there anymore. Where does all that land go? What do farmers grow instead? And who wins or loses in the process?
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team21d ago
A new ultra-black wool could make it desirable to be a black sheep. The specially dyed wool could be a low-cost, biodegradable material for producing potable water from saltwater using only...
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall22d ago
Just as humans head indoors for warmth in the winter and shade in the summer, tree-dwelling animals use the arboreal equivalent of caves for refuge from temperature extremes.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt23d ago
What humans have wrought is heavy. In a new study, researchers calculated the weight of more than 600 million buildings in cities across the world and came up with a total of 835 billion metric...
Anthropocene Magazineby Douglas Fox27d ago
Microplastics are a scourge on the environment, accumulating in farm soils and wriggling their way into the food supply—reducing harvests and harming human health.
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team28d ago
There are many ways to cut the carbon emissions of concrete. One is to mix conventional Portland cement with limestone or other similar materials.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall29d ago
Probiotics are a popular dietary supplement, promising to boost people’s health by populating their guts with healthy microbes.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt8 Sept 2026
An integrated, nationwide system for recycling and reusing old EV batteries could save 6.1 billion tons of carbon emissions and 3.9 trillion Chinese Yuan over 30 years, according to a new study.
Anthropocene Magazineby Douglas Fox4 Sept 2026
When people imagine the front line of antibiotic resistance, they may see a hospital where antibiotics are overprescribed, or a feed lot where cattle are pumped full of these drugs.
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