In a study released Thursday, a group of scientists announced the creation of what they say is a significantly cheaper method to scrub carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.
A group of 10 families is taking the European Union to court in an attempt to get its member states to take more drastic action on climate change.
Incentives in the congressional spending bill and innovation in the private sector signal that this technology may soon become a reality.
A new study asks: Can countries meet citizens' needs without over-consuming resources?
Saving the planet and addressing climate change now hinges on a massive data puzzle.
Can sports teams muscle environmentalism into the mainstream?
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.
What’s an intended nationally determined contribution?
Like any science, the science of climate change is subject to uncertainties. A new proposed index offers policymakers a steadier number to pin their policies to.
By air or water, pollution from power plants is a problem no matter which exit it takes.
Simple: It's a cheap way to power manufacturing plants, according to a new study. And that bodes poorly for the environment.
The United States and Mexico met the deadline for their carbon pollution goals. Will others follow?
Seven countries account for 60 percent of the world's global warming, according to a study released last year.
What happened to all of those investments in renewable energy technologies?
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.
The president's all-of-the-above approach to oil, gas, coal, wind, solar and everything else has been comprehensive, but incomprehensible.
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.
Robert Socolow, the co-author of an influential plan to reduce carbon emissions, revisits his work seven years later to understand why it failed.
Proponents of the "Wesleyan Statement" say that America should tax carbon to reduce emissions, then return the money to citizens as a direct payment or a tax reduction.
In car-crazy Australia, soft measures are turning the tide in the hard battle to reduce the number of basically empty cars on the road.
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.
A U.S. government project combining two well-known technologies — swamp coolers and water-absorbing compounds — generates an amazingly efficient air conditioner.
Offering some idea of what cap-and-trade might cost average Americans, the EPA estimates between $79 and $146 a year.
Researchers from Oregon State argue that when it comes to carbon emissions, not all forest fires are created equal.