Anthropocene Magazine

A new entrant in the plant-protein race: The marigold

With as much protein as quinoa, marigolds are a surprising untapped nutritional resource, research finds. What’s more their ...
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This tiny bottle cap traveled 1,500 kilometers. It had 307 hitchhikers aboard.

Scientists cracked the case of a single plastic cap using isotope chemistry and ocean current models, revealing how trash is ...
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The surprising upside of asking people to use less energy

New research complicates the long-held belief that climate policy is a trade-off between cost and carbon, adding a third ...
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The climate fix isn’t cutting all meat—It’s targeting the people who eat the most.

A Scottish study finds that shifting heavy meat eaters toward modest cuts, rather than trimming everyone's diet evenly, could ...
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The overlooked wiring problem in the clean-energy transition

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) ...
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Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.

Hydrogen is a promising clean-burning fuel for trucks, ships, and airplanes. The global demand for hydrogen has nearly doubled over the past two decades. But most hydrogen today does not come from a ...