Recycling food waste has a huge climate upside and a surprising downside.
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce14h ago
If all food waste in the US found a second life as biogas and compost, this would almost completely offset its climate impact.
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71%Trashed solar panels will be a treasure worth up to $1 trillion
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team1d ago
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 Cornwall2d ago
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 DeWeerdt3d ago
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 Bryce7d ago
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 Team8d ago
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 Cornwall9d ago
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 DeWeerdt10d ago
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 Team11d ago
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 Bryce14d ago
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 Cornwall16d ago
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 DeWeerdt17d ago
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.
A spritz of nanoparticles could save tomatoes from salty soil
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce21d ago
Tomatoes are some of the most widely-produced and consumed crops worldwide. They’re also vulnerable to increasing soil salinity.
MIT researchers have designed a recyclable alternative to spandex
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team22d ago
More than 11 million tons of textiles end up in landfills or incinerators every year in the US alone.
How to save giant Sequoias: Burn the forest around it first
Anthropocene Magazineby Warren Cornwall23d ago
Giant sequoias are built to live with fire. Their thick, spongy bark shields the underlying wood from flames.
Do small climate habits help or hurt the bigger cause? What a 4-year study found.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt24d ago
Small, everyday environmentally friendly behaviors don’t distract people from taking more meaningful collective action or supporting policies to limit climate change, according to a new study.
Researchers use hemp, rock dust and biochar to scrub forever chemicals from farm soils
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce28d ago
A growing problem of modern industrial agriculture is the accumulation of ‘forever chemicals’ like PFAS in the soil.
Battery-like device sucks carbon dioxide out of thin air
Anthropocene Magazineby Anthropocene Team29d ago
Emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is easy. Pulling it back out? Not so much. Researchers have now developed a battery-like device that captures carbon dioxide from air by using a charging...
Obeying the speed limit would save 57,000 tons of carbon a day. It would cost you 54 seconds.
Anthropocene Magazineby Sarah DeWeerdt21 Jul 2026
If drivers of gasoline cars refrained from speeding, they would collectively save an average of 57,000 metric tons of carbon emissions every day in the United States—while spending less than a...
A new entrant in the plant-protein race: The marigold
Anthropocene Magazineby Emma Bryce17 Jul 2026
We occasionally use flowers to decorate food, but few people would think of flowers themselves as food.