European Union countries reached a deal following hard−fought talks that dragged into early on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, to back stricter climate rules that would eliminate carbon emissions from new cars by 2035.
Canada's forests are being logged faster than they are growing back, writes columnist Barry Saxifrage. That's pouring billions of tonnes of CO2 into our rapidly destabilizing climate.
There’s still time to save the Arctic summer sea ice at risk of disappearing by mid-century if countries around the world immediately do everything possible to reduce methane emissions, a new study says.
Markets that connect businesses hoping to offset their carbon emissions with climate change mitigation projects have been plagued by problems. But an economist and his co-authors argue carbon markets can be reformed and play a significant role in slowing global warming.
A Ugandan activist channeled the fears of many young people and vulnerable countries at Thursday's, November 11, 2021, U.N. climate talks in Glasgow that world leaders won't take the action needed to prevent potentially lethal levels of global warming.
The production of steel, cement, and ammonia together emit about one-fifth of all human-caused CO2. Technologies are emerging that promise to decarbonize these problem industries, but analysts warn big challenges remain before the processes can be cleaned up.
Net-zero emissions — balancing emissions by absorbing equivalent amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere — is the defining approach of international climate efforts. But some scientists are arguing that this strategy simply allows the perpetuation of the status quo and is certain to fail.