Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most abundant and perhaps the most important to human life. Everywhere you look, ...

The future of fossil fuels is at the center of the United Nations climate summit in Dubai, where many activists, experts and nations are calling for an agreement to phase out the oil, gas and coal ...

Blue Carbon refers to organic carbon captured and stored by the ocean in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, saltmarshes or seagrass meadows. In these Blue Carbon ecosystems, ...

An agreement at the United Nations-led climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels brought a measure of relief for climate activists, even as many said it doesn’t go far enough. They also ...

Jargon is hard to decipher. And when it comes to climate science, it’s rife. So, we’ve teamed up with top climate experts to explain the meaning, and the context, of some of the most crucial ...

Carbon markets can be a powerful tool for reducing industrial pollution and deforestation. Learn about different types of carbon markets and how they work.

Planting trees is a controversial way to fight climate change, but tech companies still rely on the strategy to meet sustainability goals. Planting trees is a controversial way to fight climate change ...

Imagine a game of Whac-a-Mole. Whenever you slam the hammer down on one mechanical mole, another pops up out of a different hole. That is what mitigation policy can seem like to some countries. One ...

Embodied carbon is the measurable greenhouse gas emissions of an infrastructure's entire construction, maintenance and demolition processes. Unlike operational carbon, which measures a structure's ...