Companies used to be accused of faking sustainability via greenwashing. Now some are hiding actual climate progress.

Not yet. Scientists modeled renewable-powered “plant factories” and found they could meet China’s entire vegetable demand ...

Researchers in Denmark have found a way to recover toxic arsenic from groundwater and repurpose it into a valuable material ...

The big bad wolf is really a scaredy cat. While wolves’ reputation as fearsome predators makes them the stuff of old legends and modern polemics, at least one animal will prompt them to turn tail: ...

The first quantitative global analysis of renewable energy development by fossil giants reveals an enormous gap between rhetoric and reality.

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Desert farmers may have found an unexpected ally in a tropical fruit: the pineapple. Researchers at Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University have transformed pineapple ...

Using wood-derived materials, researchers showcase the potential of making eco-friendly yet high-functioning electronics ...

A cup of tea can recharge you after a long, tiring day. Tea might also be just what spent batteries need to rejuvenate. In a new study, researchers have used natural compounds that they extract from ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. Environmentally friendly and even carbon-negative drinking straws exist, according to a new study. But the analysis also lays bare the potential for ...

Overall global energy use has risen fivefold within one human lifetime. The history of energy use is like our closets. We don’t typically give up our belongings; we add to them. Coal didn’t replace ...

Space-saving, low-input, pest-free: vertical farming is often regarded as a solution to many of conventional agriculture’s woes. But the findings of a new study draw a question mark over its prospects ...