Carbon Dioxide

According to a new analysis, tropical forest loss currently accounts for 8 percent of the world's annual carbon dioxide emissions.

By Rachel Fritts

Environment

The global shipping industry will still need to ratchet up its efforts to decarbonize to keep the goals of the Paris Agreement alive.

By Kate Wheeling

Environment

But a new study finds that the ambitious goal of halving emissions from forest loss in the tropics by the end of the decade remains within reach.

By Kate Wheeling

Economics

A new study highlights how American air carriers can cut emissions and improve their bottom lines at the same time.

By Nathan Collins

Social Justice

How the epic quest to find protein revealed a surprising link between climate change and obesity.

By Peter Andrey Smith

Environment

A new study finds even more reason to fight global warming.

By Nathan Collins

Environment

Global atmospheric CO2 is now above 400 ppm. That's uncharted territory for humans—but not for Earth.

By Brian Palmer

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Environment

Among the natural substances that absorb carbon dioxide is olivine, a magnesium-containing crystal found in igneous rocks.

By Brian Palmer

Environment

The biggest cities may have inspired all the panic, but it's the small and mid-sized cities that are going to produce the most carbon dioxide in years to come.

By Nathan Collins

Environment

Doing well by doing good is a common mantra in business circles. A new examination of a voluntary carbon-limiting exchange finds the businesses benefited most when the market believed they were anticipating inevitable regulations.

By Michael Todd

Environment

By Matt Skenazy

Environment

An astrophysicist surveys Miller-McCune’s carbon footprint graphic from a post-Durban climate change vantage and wonders if the U.S. and the world can’t do a better job of stepping up to the challenge of climate control.

By Phil Marshall

Environment

Germany's energy revolution makes a shift to natural gas likely all over Europe.

By Michael Scott Moore

Economics

Companies ranging from banks and defense contractors to organic yogurt makers reap benefits by creating a corps of sustainable-savvy employees.

By Carrie Madren

Environment

Although lots of places in the United States sample bits and pieces of transportation management, Bellingham, Wash., shows what can happen by taking on the full program.

By Randy Salzman

Environment

A requirement for cost/benefit analyses of federal rules has created — without any real public input — a very important number in deciding what to do about greenhouse gases.

By Judith D. Schwartz

Social Justice

The loss of sea ice is a concern for more than polar bears, as the loss of reflectivity it represents means the planet may warm even faster.

By Michael Todd

Environment

A footprint comparison of total carbon dioxide emissions by nation and per capita shows there's plenty of room for smaller countries to reduce their carbon footprints.

By Stanford Kay

Environment

Two planets diverged in a solar system, and the successful one took a path more wooded.

By John Perlin

Environment

Could soil engineered specifically to maximize carbon storage dampen some effects of climate change? Very possibly.

By Peter Friederici

Environment

Researchers studying a mashup of existing data are tracking exactly where carbon is entering — and exiting — the atmosphere.

By David Richardson

Environment

Deforestation has long been associated with global warming, but a new paper suggests the method of deforesting — intentionally burning — may be a terrifically potent climate changer, too.