When Mark Stoeckle went fishing in New York City’s East River, he caught a lot more than he was expecting. The scientist from The Rockefeller University was focused on testing whether DNA floating in ...

Using traffic cameras and phone data, researchers created a real-time emissions map—giving cities a powerful new tool to cut ...

By slashing oil demand, electric vehicle policies trigger a cascade of benefits: lower gasoline prices, cheaper home energy, ...

Current efforts to help coral evolve heat tolerance are moving too slowly to outrun global warming. Scientists propose a moon ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Crops of lettuce grown indoors—shielded from the elements in vertical farms, polytunnels, and greenhouses—will produce on average 50% more leaves, up to 300% ...

A growing fleet of electric vehicles could unlock a cheaper, cleaner alternative to fossil-fuel power plants—without building ...

Incorporating trees onto cropland can sequester large amounts of carbon—but the most striking benefits are felt in farmers’ wallets, according to study from India. It found that mixed croplands ...

In a sustainable twist to the saying “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” researchers in Hawaii are developing a method to convert discarded fishing nets and plastic trash into asphalt roads.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Decarbonizing society will require massive amounts of battery storage, both to power electric vehicles (EVs) and to smooth out the variability of renewable ...