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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A household-scale “nanogrid” with direct current (DC) wiring could trim electricity use by almost a tenth compared to a conventional alternating current (AC) ...

Scientists, including ecologists, are data hogs. More data can give analyses more statistical power, increasing confidence that a researcher is seeing something real in the numbers, whether it’s ...

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

A Scottish study finds that shifting heavy meat eaters toward modest cuts, rather than trimming everyone's diet evenly, could ...