The aviation industry's significant carbon emissions are driving the widespread adoption of carbon offsetting as a critical tool for airlines to achieve environmental goals and comply with regulations ...

Pledges to emit less greenhouse gases are laced with nuance. Are major oil companies (the majors) replacing fossil fuels as the dominant source of energy with cleaner alternatives, or are they merely ...

FEBRUARY 25, 2025 - A chimney at a power station emits treated exhaust gas to meet standards in Binzhou city, Shandong province, China, February 25, 2025. (Photo credit CFOTO/Future Publishing via ...

This week, governments, policy makers, business leaders and members of civil society will gather in Dubai for COP28, to discuss the progress towards the goals set out in the Paris agreement. There is ...

While cars, airplanes and factories are busy spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, trees spend much of their time absorbing this harmful greenhouse gas via photosynthesis. In a single calendar ...

For the world to hit net zero, carbon removal is going to be essential—there’s simply no way to reverse humanity’s impact on the climate without extracting carbon from the air. The world currently has ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A team of researchers has put forth a method that they say makes it possible to compare credits for carbon from forests projects against more ...

Over a billion dollars have been spent on forest and land use carbon credits to “offset” emissions. These offsets have been heralded as a means of protecting and growing the world’s remaining forests, ...

Blue carbon refers to the carbon captured by the world's oceanic and coastal ecosystems. Protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems like mangroves and seagrass meadows has been heralded as a way to ...