Emma Bryce

1 week ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Emma Bryce

One group of researchers have chanced upon a creative solution for agricultural waste: turning it into fabric. In a new study, they explain that agricultural waste streams can produce a promising pulp that can be transformed into clothes, whilst simultaneously reducing dependence on water-intensive cotton, and wood fiber, which is in high demand for other uses. The new study was based in Sweden, where almost one-third of the agricultural area is devoted to cereal crops like oats and wheat.

1 week ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Emma Bryce |Warren Cornwall

Ultra-bright white paints are the go-to when it comes to cooling buildings. Those paints work by reflecting as much of the sun as they can. An international team of researchers have now made a cement-based cooling paint that bests those white cooling paints. The new paint reflects sunrays and emits heat as infrared radiation, which passes through the atmosphere straight into space in a phenomenon called passive radiative cooling.

2 weeks ago | livescience.com | Emma Bryce

Humans have unique breathing patterns that can be used to identify and distinguish individuals, a new study has found. In the work, published Thursday (June 12) in the journal Current Biology, researchers could use an algorithm to identify individuals based on these distinct "respiratory fingerprints" nearly 97% of the time. The study authors also think the breathing profiles could reveal potential clues about each individual's mental and physical health.

2 weeks ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Emma Bryce

Protecting fish biodiversity is a win-win solution for human nutrition and sustainable fisheries, finds a new study. The research, published in Nature Sustainability, unearthed some interesting findings including that biodiverse fisheries tend to contain smaller, more nutrient-dense fish that are also more resilient to fishing pressures and climate change.

2 weeks ago | anthropocenemagazine.org | Sarah DeWeerdt |Emma Bryce

Large-scale facilities that capture carbon dioxide from the air are already operating around the world. But the high-tech materials they use are expensive. Researchers have now found that clay, one of the most abundant materials on Earth, could be a much simpler, cheaper way to for direct air capture of carbon dioxide. The results appear in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.