carbon emissions

Washington state residents are taking climate matters into their own hands. Beginning this month, 90 members of the public join the country’s first climate assembly to develop pollution solutions, Crosscut reported. Randomly picked and representing every congressional district in the state, assembly members have until March to discuss climate pollution, reach a consensus and forward […]

Nearly 1.6 million people in the southern part of Madagascar have faced food insecurity since 2016, experiencing one drought after another, the United Nations World Food Program reported. A study published Monday found billions more could face food insecurity as Earth’s tropical rain belt shifts in response to climate change, causing increased drought stress and […]

By Monir Ghaedi As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep most of Europe on pause, the EU aims for a breakthrough in its space program. The continent is seeking more than just a self-sufficient space industry competitive with China and the U.S.; the industry must also fit into the European Green Deal. ‘Strategic Autonomy’ in […]

Up until now, humans have had an invaluable ally in the climate crisis battle: Earth’s plants. These steadfast photosynthesizers have absorbed about a third of human-released greenhouse gas emissions, but that could change. A study published in Science Advances on Wednesday warned that if emissions continue at current rates, then we are decades away from […]

United Airlines is seeking to reduce its net greenhouse gas pollution by investing in carbon capture and sequestration instead of merely buying carbon offsets. “Traditional carbon offsets do almost nothing to tackle the emissions from flying. And, more importantly, they simply don’t meet the scale of this global challenge,” United CEO Scott Kirby wrote. United […]

By Tim Schauenberg When the Earth shook the Los Angeles region on the night of January 17, 1994, many houses, bridges and power lines were toppled. At that moment, the brightly illuminated metropole was plunged into darkness. People torn from their beds emerged to the reality of having been hit by an earthquake. They also, […]

By Francesco Starace and Jean-Pascal Tricoire Why is it so important to decarbonize cities? And how can we do it? The first question is easy to answer: The cities in which more than half of us live account for nearly two-thirds of the CO2 emissions that lie at the root of our planet’s looming climate […]

Indian startup Carbon Craft Design (CCD) launched with the goal of making construction more sustainable and tackling India’s major air pollution problem. It does so by extracting black carbon from polluted air and upcycling it into strong and stylish carbon tiles. Black carbon is a substance in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution that absorbs […]