Mushroom leather may finally be ready for mass production
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team3 Sept 2026
Researchers in Finland have developed a way to make leather-like fabrics from fungi at large scale using industrial equipment.
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top 50%Even the sound equivalent of a library can detract from the health benefits of listening to nature.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall2 Sept 2026
The power of birdsong to lift the human spirit has long been appreciated. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29, a suffering person is revived when “Haply I think on thee, and then my state,/Like to the lark...
Politicians vastly overestimate opposition to climate action
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt1 Sept 2026
Politicians overestimate opposition to climate action, as well as how polarized the public is on the issue, according to a new study.
Solar panels could cool down farms—and farmworkers
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce28 Aug 2026
As summers grow hotter, we’ll need new solutions for agriculture and the people who keep this industry going.
To sort or not to sort your recyclables—which is the better climate bet?
Anthropocene Magazineby James Gaines27 Aug 2026
In the late 1980s, the city of Phoenix, Arizona made a bet: If residents no longer had to sort glass from paper from plastic, more of them would recycle.
The circular chemistry that could make cement carbon-negative
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team27 Aug 2026
Cement is one of the most-used manmade materials in the world. And the kilns that produce this in-demand building material belch about 8 percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions.
To fight wildfires and climate change, scientists say: Don’t burn debris, bury it.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall26 Aug 2026
When logging companies cut down trees to thin overcrowded forests, they are left with a costly headache: giant mounds of limbs and spindly trunks worth so little that it’s easier to burn them.
Urban heat's overlooked fix: Greening the land upwind of cities
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt25 Aug 2026
Strategically placed greenbelts in the suburbs could cool some of the world’s biggest cities by almost half a degree across at least half their area, according to a new analysis.
Recycling food waste has a huge climate upside and a surprising downside.
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce21 Aug 2026
If all food waste in the US found a second life as biogas and compost, this would almost completely offset its climate impact.
Trashed solar panels will be a treasure worth up to $1 trillion
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team20 Aug 2026
Solar power is in its heyday, with installations growing rapidly around the world as costs drop. Recent studies have suggested that photovoltaics could be the dominant power source by 2050.
Ancient buffalo DNA lays out a roadmap to rehabilitating healthy herds
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall19 Aug 2026
The North American plains bison stands as a symbol of both rampant devastation wrought by colonizing powers and of the potential to bring a species back from the brink of extinction.
The cognitive bias behind bad climate math
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt18 Aug 2026
Before people can reduce their carbon footprint, they need to know what actions will most help them do so.
Scientists make a seaweed coating that beats the fridge for cutting food waste
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce14 Aug 2026
A self-assembling coating made from seaweed and zinc can keep fruit fresher and lasting longer than even the cool interior of a fridge.
Scientists found the sweet spot for dumping iron into the ocean
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team13 Aug 2026
The planet’s oceans are an ally for fighting climate change. They absorb about a third of all human-generated carbon dioxide emissions.
As the world warms, butterflies are relocating at an astonishing scale
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall12 Aug 2026
The world’s butterflies are on the move. Whether it’s the iridescent blue Godartiana byses flitting south in Brazil as temperatures rise or Europe’s endangered Danube clouded yellow losing ground...
When should you scrap your gasoline car? The answer is almost certainly now.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt11 Aug 2026
Replacing a gasoline car of any age—even a brand-new one—with an electric vehicle will almost always lower overall carbon emissions, according to a new analysis.
Researchers recycle rice husks into a wonder material that removes toxic dyes from water
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team10 Aug 2026
Using the waste created by one of the world’s staple foods, researchers have made a filter that can clean water.
Which age group has the most climate-intensive diet?
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce7 Aug 2026
Your age shapes your diet’s impact will be—and while older people drive overall emissions increases at global scales, it’s surprisingly the youth who have a higher individual footprint, a new study...
Everyone's afraid of mountain lions. The data says be afraid of deer instead.
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall5 Aug 2026
When people talk about living near mountain lions, it’s usually about the threat they pose. But what if these big carnivores are also making us safer?
A majority of Americans don't actually fit either climate camp
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt4 Aug 2026
Climate change is an extremely politically polarized topic in the United States, with Democrats generally concerned about human-caused climate change and Republicans more skeptical.