carbon dioxide
‘Win-win’: new maps reveal best opportunities for global reforestation
A new study shows regions with the best potential to regrow trees and suck climate-heating CO2 from the air.
The world’s oceans are a ‘ticking time bomb,’ reaching dangerous acidification levels earlier than scientists thought
Ocean acidification has crossed “planetary boundaries” in some parts of the ocean, deepening a crisis facing the planet’s marine ecosystems.
Uber’s new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who’s taken a bus
Beyond the jokes about Uber inventing bus lines are serious questions about what its shuttle service will mean for struggling transit systems, air quality, and congestion.
Greenland and Iceland experienced record heat in May. What does that mean for the world?
Human-caused climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released on Wednesday.
Can toxic mining waste help remove CO2 from the atmosphere?
On the coast of Newfoundland, waste from a shuttered asbestos mine has been a troubling source of contamination for decades. Now, a company plans to process the waste to draw CO2 from the air — one of several projects worldwide that aim to turn this liability into an asset.
How one company wants to make geoengineering profitable
Stardust, an Israeli-U.S. startup, intends to patent its unique technology for temporarily cooling the planet.
Last decade was Earth's hottest on record: UN report
In its annual State of the Climate report, the World Meteorological Organization laid bare all the markings of an increasingly warming world with oceans at record high temperatures, sea levels rising and glaciers retreating at record speed.
After cuts, former NOAA chief scientist says U.S. science risks becoming a 'backwater enterprise'
With its first wave of firings, the new Trump administration has decimated NOAA.
Alberta set to build world's first full-sized zero carbon cement plant
The Canadian government and international building materials supplier Heidelberg sign deal to move forward $275 million pilot project in Edmonton that would capture 95 per cent of CO2 product during manufacturing of cement.
World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets
Carbon capture projects will garner less support in Trump's second term
Putting carbon dioxide from power plants and industrial facilities underground where it won’t contribute to global warming could see less federal support and enthusiasm under President Donald Trump. But experts and industry advocates doubt demand for the technology will go away as long as utilities face state-level climate change goals.
Why are we losing our heads over oil and gas tariffs?
The salient responses to Trump’s threats reveal once again that no Canadian government takes seriously the unfolding transformation of the Earth’s climate.
Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 than Glasgow in 2023
Analysis by the Transport and Environment (T&E) campaign group, provided to the Guardian, found Carnival to be the most climate-polluting cruise company sailing in Europe in 2023.
How Republicans (sometimes) get on board with climate action
Getting anything accomplished under President-elect Trump might seem far-fetched. But it’s happened before.