How many trees are needed to offset a city's carbon emissions?
Trees are nature’s lungs. While we enjoy their beauty, shade and fruits of their existence, they are silently...
Ithaca raises $100m to decarbonize buildings
The city of Ithaca in New York is paving the way for others with its ambitious project of converting thousands...
Carbon to Value Initiative launches business accelerator for carbontech startups
Most business accelerators focus on community economic development. But the new six-month Carbon to Value Initiative...
Carbon credits market expanding despite challenges
Carbon trading is turning into a lucrative business, with more projects claiming credits. Case in point, a seagrass...
Aether makes diamonds out of thin air
Diamonds are little stones loaded with meaning and fraught with controversy. They’ve dominated the engagement...
Carbfix turns emissions into stone
An Icelandic startup has an intriguing solution to the emissions problem: turn carbon into stone. While it sounds...
The social cost of carbon could help shape stricter climate policies
On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he ordered a review of an obscure but important number: the social...
Biden signs executive order to rejoin Paris Agreement
The newly inaugurated U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that will kickstart the process for...
Federal court dismisses Trump's rollback on regulating carbon emissions
A federal court has turned down the EPA's efforts to lessen carbon emission regulations for coal plants. The move...
Smelly but smart: ships to use ammonia as "zero-carbon" fuel
While the world rushes against time to curb carbon emissions from cars, trains and airplanes, another area of transport...
The states winning the carbon emissions fight may surprise you
For decades, many states have worked to reduce CO2 emissions. Although the federal government has failed to enact...
Applying rock dust to farms could boost carbon sequestration
A report in the journal Nature has revealed that enhanced rock weathering (ERW) could help slow climate change...
Can manufacturing green sand beaches save our planet?
It sounds too good to be true — spread some rocks on a beach and the ocean will do the work to remove carbon...
New technological process transforms everyday trash into graphene
Rice University researchers have succeeded in creating graphene, not from costly purified starting materials, but...
The planet is losing an area of forest cover the size of the UK each year
The rate of world deforestation continues to accelerate, despite governments’ promises to reverse it. Now, the...
