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

Remote health care appointments in the United States prevented carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to that of 130,000 ...

Tens of thousands of oil wells are scattered across the peatlands of western Canada. When these wells eventually run dry, simple techniques could enable the restoration of natural peatland ecosystems ...

Poor cows. They get smeared with blame for causing an unseemly amount of climate-warming methane emissions. The waste they create is a growing pollution problem too. Farms produce more manure than ...

Known as crustose coralline algae or red algae, these species coat rocks much like lichen on an alpine cliff. They emit a ...

Human waste contains many valuable nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. That makes it a promising potential fertilizer with a lower carbon footprint than today’s fertilizers. But ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A forest, as anyone who spends time in one will know, is a lot more than just trees. These ecosystems support a massive number of different organisms living ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. In what’s been heralded as a research breakthrough, scientists have discovered a gene variant that makes rice more resilient, enabling plants to produce ...