Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. U.S. states can decarbonize on their own for about the same price as a federal-led effort to reduce emissions by the same amount, according to a new study.

Anthropocene brings some of the best minds to bear on tough questions about the future of the Earth’s largest ecosystems: Should nations farm their EEZs—and how can they do it ecologically? Are there ...

Melatonin, a sleep aid for humans, is known to keep fruits and vegetables fresh longer. Now scientists have come up with a ...

A new study in Panama found that entrusting forests to Indigenous inhabitants may be a more effective conservation strategy ...

A new study looks systematically for what works—and what doesn’t—to overcome psychological barriers that keep people stuck in ...

Farmed at scale, seagrass meadows could produce grain in quantities equivalent to 7% of global rice production, a new study finds.

Engineers have created steel-like wood by infusing it with iron, offering a climate-friendly alternative to concrete and ...

How do we feed a growing and more affluent population without the environmental collateral damage? The Anthropocene’s coverage of food and agriculture digs deep into innovations in farming, ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Researchers have employed an unlikely organism—fungi—to make a new type of biodegradable battery. The new 3D-printed fungal battery produces enough ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A team of researchers in the UK have come up with a solution to these two issues. In a paper published in the journal Nature Energy, they report a novel ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. The clothing industry is an unfolding environmental disaster. The world dumps 92 million tons of textiles every year, most of which ends up in landfills or ...

Inside the phone or computer you are reading this story on is a fiberglass board bearing all the circuit chips, wires and other electronic components that make the device work. And every year, ...