For decades, Britain’s peppered moth has been the textbook example of how humans can rapidly drive evolution in another species. New textbooks might want to use a New Zealand stonefly instead. The ...

Methods that tweak genes without transferring new material into crops sit in regulatory limbo in the EU. Could legalizing ...

Scientists have engineered a living, carbon-capturing material that can be shaped by 3D printing and hardened over time ...

The effect of bag fees on plastic garbage bag sales is similar to that of bag bans. That’s somewhat surprising, the researchers say, since the per-bag fee of $0.05 is less than the average price per ...

A new paper offers a roadmap for integrating crop resilience and carbon mitigation into national and global climate ...

When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments.

A massive multi-country study suggests that simply closing the gap between the actual and perceived consensus moves the needle on climate beliefs without polarizing groups.

Many towns and cities in the U.S. have halted or scaled back their curbside recycling programs in an effort to reduce costs. But this is a misguided approach when it comes to fighting climate change, ...

New research finds that the global decline of scavengers like hyenas and vultures is putting ecosystems—and human health—at ...

Let the best of Anthropocene come to you. At a moment when artificial intelligence is at the forefront of cultural consciousness, a similar but much less noticed revolution is underway among a small ...

We could be a step closer to industrial food production in floating ocean biodomes: a team of Australian researchers have built a completely self-sustaining system that uses only seawater, solar ...

Food loss and waste contributes half of the annual emissions arising from the whole global food system. This enormous figure was recently revealed in a Nature Food study—which, among other revelations ...