An analysis of diets worldwide reveals that lower-cost diets are often substantially less carbon-intensive than the meals ...

A first-of-its-kind national study finds that vehicle-to-home charging can turn electric cars into grid-smart assets, ...

By coaxing soil bacteria into fixing more nitrogen, gene-edited wheat shows how crops might one day sidestep synthetic ...

If you think about it, it really is an unbelievable chain of events: Earth, a planet shaped by water and home to millions of different life forms, assembles, from a billion molecules, a person who ...

Flying is the most climate-unfriendly mode of transportation, yet demand for air travel is projected to continue to increase in the coming decades. Researchers are working on replacing jet fuel with ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. As the number of electric vehicles and smart gadgets surges, ethical and environmental problems with the lithium-ion batteries that power them is starting to ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. More than 40% of the street network in some cities is suitable for transformation similar to Barcelona-style “superblocks,” according to a new study. The ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Humans have turned all kinds of wild animals into pets and livestock: wolves to dogs, wildcats to housecats, wild goats and sheep into their tame counterparts ...

A team of scientists have created a porous material that keeps windows almost 100 percent transparent while blocking 10 times ...

Taking inspiration from anchovies and herrings, researchers have made a new filter that could keep microplastics from entering waterways and oceans. The filter, with a design based on the gill systems ...