carbon emissions

Could IKEA’s Tiny House Help Fight the Climate Crisis?

Could IKEA’s Tiny House Help Fight the Climate Crisis?

Furniture giant IKEA collaborated with Vox Creative and tiny home builder Escape to produce a tiny house on wheels that could inspire environmental- and climate-friendly changes in the housing industry. “It was a natural pairing,” Escape founder Dan Dobrowolski told Lonely Planet. “We feature many IKEA products in our various tiny home designs around the country […]

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    New Report Details How U.S. Can Achieve Net-Zero Emissions by 2050​

    New Report Details How U.S. Can Achieve Net-Zero Emissions by 2050​

    A new report from Princeton University released yesterday details five pathways for achieving net zero emissions in the U.S. by 2050, with “priority actions” the U.S. should take before 2030. A highlight across all pathways is total or near total electrification of energy use across the U.S. economy. Additional recommendations include building a significant amount […]

    Climate Change Made Earth-like Venus Uninhabitable

    Climate Change Made Earth-like Venus Uninhabitable

    By Richard Ernst We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450℃ (the temperature of an oven’s self-cleaning cycle) and an atmosphere dominated by carbon dioxide (96 percent) with a density 90 times that of Earth’s. Venus is a very strange place, totally […]

    EU Leaders Agree to Cut Emissions 55 Percent by 2030

    EU Leaders Agree to Cut Emissions 55 Percent by 2030

    European Union leaders reached an eleventh-hour agreement Friday to reduce the bloc’s collective greenhouse gas emissions by 55 percent of 1990 levels by 2030. The deal, hashed out over a negotiation all-nighter, managed to reconcile differences between wealthier Western European countries and Eastern European countries such as Poland that are still heavily dependent on coal, […]

    Global Carbon Emissions Fall by Record 7% in 2020

    Global Carbon Emissions Fall by Record 7% in 2020

    Carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 fell by 7%, the biggest drop ever, as countries around the world imposed lockdowns and restrictions on movement to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Global Carbon Project said in its annual assessment on Friday. The pandemic-struck year saw emissions cut by an estimated 2.4 billion metric tons, […]

    Greta Thunberg Warns Humanity ‘Still Speeding in Wrong Direction’ on Climate

    Greta Thunberg Warns Humanity ‘Still Speeding in Wrong Direction’ on Climate

    By Andrea Germanos Teen climate leader Greta Thunberg on Thursday reiterated her demand that humanity end its inaction on the planetary emergency as she warned—five years after the Paris agreement was signed—the world is “speeding in the wrong direction” in terms of emission reductions. With nothing less than a total “system change” needed, the 17-year-old […]

    New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency

    New Zealand Declares Climate Emergency

    The government of New Zealand declared a climate emergency on Wednesday, a symbolic step recognizing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predictions of substantial global warming if emissions do not fall. Alongside the declaration, New Zealand announced it would require its public sector to become carbon neutral by 2025. Government agencies would need to […]

    Climate Change Is Making Fall Leaves Change Color Sooner

    Climate Change Is Making Fall Leaves Change Color Sooner

    By Philip James As the days shorten and temperatures drop in the northern hemisphere, leaves begin to turn. We can enjoy glorious autumnal colors while the leaves are still on the trees and, later, kicking through a red, brown and gold carpet when out walking. When temperatures rise again in spring, the growing season for […]

    Free Returns Are Costing the Environment

    Free Returns Are Costing the Environment

    Many people shop online for everything from clothes to appliances. If they do not like the product, they simply return it. But there’s an environmental cost to returns. Meagan Knowlton is a sustainability manager at Optoro, a company that helps retailers process and resell returns. Optoro estimates that each year, returns in the U.S. create […]