In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from ...

A new survey of bacteria in bird feces reveals how humans are infecting animals, and how the problem could boomerang back to ...

In the middle of the 19 th century, millions of wild passenger pigeons were slaughtered each year in the United States to ...

Chemical engineers made the new portable device by mimicking two natural processes: Simple evaporation and condensation and the transport of water from plant roots to the leaves.

Reconductoring has been mostly overlooked in the United States—until now. A new study finds the potential for billions of dollars in savings ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. A carefully calibrated combination of rooftop gardens and solar panels could meet 15% of a city’s vegetable needs and provide 5% of its electricity on average ...

Heat percolates upward from the Earth’s core everywhere in the world. So why can’t it be tapped everywhere, too?

It seems that we can’t help ourselves. Humans see patterns everywhere we look. We use patterns to make sense of the world—picture the eloquent double helix of a DNA strand; but also to make nonsense ...

Even if it’s now officially not a geological epoch.