A Yale study finds that combining three low-cost interventions could bring contaminated soils below safety thresholds within a decade, at a fraction of conventional cleanup costs.

Using electricity and seawater chemistry would be more economical and efficient than today’s direct air capture technologies ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. The benefits of agrivoltaics—the placement of solar panels over cropland for more efficient land use—varies dramatically depending on where it’s located, ...

A gradually waning appetite for meat over the past twenty years has pushed the greenhouse gas emissions of US diets down by 35%, finds a surprising and hopeful new study. The country’s emissions still ...

We may be overlooking the potential of crushed rock to trap tons of carbon across swathes of arid farmland, a new study shows. Rock weathering has such significant carbon-fixing potential that ...

With as much protein as quinoa, marigolds are a surprising untapped nutritional resource, research finds. What’s more their ...

New research complicates the long-held belief that climate policy is a trade-off between cost and carbon, adding a third ...

Scientists cracked the case of a single plastic cap using isotope chemistry and ocean current models, revealing how trash is ...

Within the soil, a group of unique microbes are working overtime to shield wild plants from salt stress. Now researchers have shown that those naturally-occurring microbes can be successfully ...

People have tried all kinds of strategies stem the trade in illegal animal parts. Often these involved high-profile crackdowns, such as arresting smuggler or torching piles of contraband elephant ...

Technological advances have brought higher crop yields and with that, saved over 16 million hectares of wild habitat worldwide. Thanks to this swathe of protected land, thousands of species of animals ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Untangling the worst impacts of livestock on our planet won’t require us to completely reject meat and dairy: in fact, replacing 50% of these products with ...