Magenta solar panels may be agrivoltaics’ cleverest trick yet
See-through solar cells harvest some wavelengths of light to make electricity, while passing through the red and blue wavelengths that plants need. In a new agrivoltaics experiment, broccoli yields held steady.
There’s more than one answer to these questions.
Why is it so hard to change our clothes?
You really are never going to feel the same way about your plastic disposable water bottle as you do about your clothes.
Why is it so hard to change our clothes?
You really are never going to feel the same way about your plastic disposable water bottle as you do about your clothes.
It's time to upgrade not just our technology, but also our collective imagination.
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Can charging frequent flyers for their carbon solve aviation’s climate problem?
A bold plan goes up against global realities
A landmark MIT study debunks persistent myths about electric vehicles
Think EVs don’t make sense in cold climates, or that a dirty power grid cancels out the benefits? Researchers find the opposite is true—and that EVs cost no more to own than a comparable gas car almost anywhere in the U.S.
What are the world’s 35 biggest meat and dairy companies doing to mitigate climate change?
Drawing on a vast dataset called OpenSecrets, researchers found that the amount that companies spent on lobbying against climate action
generally tracked with the intensity of their emissions
Want to fight climate change? Stay home.
Americans are spending more time at home, which increased residential energy use, but still saved a total of 1,700 trillion bTU of energy, or 1.8% of the total energy use, in the United States mainly because of less traveling to offices and stores.
How to Die in The Anthropocene
Death is inevitable, but its
environmental toll may not have to be.
Does that FSC label on forest products actually buy better wildlife protection in the jungles of Central Africa?
Sometimes maligned as greenwashing, new research found FSC-certified forestry effectively protects wildlife in tropical forests.
A pause in the Anthropocene led to an eagle baby boom
Decades of monitoring failed to detect it, but the Covid lockdown showed that human activity—not just predators or habitat—has been quietly stifling Bonelli’s eagle reproduction.
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Kate Gammon
What if the future of mining looked like a farm?
Peter Fairley
Shipping solar power at the speed of a freight train
Emily Anthes
Amphibious architecture responds to floods like ships to a rising tide, floating on the water’s surface.
Oliver Morton
The godlike powers of geoengineering irrevocably change the human’s relationship with Planet Earth.
Veronique Greenwood
AI is making an adventurous and sustainable plant diet possible
Andrew Revkin
The word “anthropocene” has become the closest thing there is to common shorthand for this turbulent, momentous, unpredictable, hopeless, hopeful time—duration and scope still unknown.
Gregory Barber
Heat percolates upward from the Earth’s core everywhere in the world. So why can’t geothermal power be tapped everywhere, too?
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