The beaks of Anna's hummingbirds in California grew longer as people started hanging artificial feeders, according to new ...

We use around 30 billion tonnes of concrete every year. That gigantic number bears an equally gigantic carbon footprint. Producing cement, the glue that holds concrete together, is responsible for ...

A tablespoon of clay has about the same surface area as a football field; With a little tweaking, it can soak up as much CO2 ...

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.

Boosting iron intake to fight weakness and increase energy is not just for humans, new research shows. A team of scientists and engineers have found that injecting iron and other minerals into wood ...

Getting people to think more about the future, especially their own and that of people they care about, is the most effective way to motivate climate action, according to a new study. The findings ...

Researchers have successfully extended the shelf life of certain vegetables using a simple, striking solution: minuscule microneedles made of silk. These delicate spindles inject the plants with ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Farms of the future face rising sea levels, flooding of fertile land, and increasingly saline soils that will undermine yields. But what if farmers could work ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. In Panama, the best protection for keeping rainforests from disappearing hasn’t been putting them inside protected refuges. It’s been putting them in the ...

These days, coral reefs need all the help they can get. Underwater heatwaves and pollution have taken a toll on coral, whose carbonate exoskeletons are the foundation of some of the richest ocean ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. We could be a step closer to industrial food production in floating ocean biodomes: a team of Australian researchers have built a completely self-sustaining ...