An alarming new study has revealed that Earth’s major carbon sinks are nearing their limits, signaling that natural processes may soon be unable to compensate for rising greenhouse gas emissions.… Read more: Earth’s carbon sinks are being pushed to their limits

On the northern edge of downtown Milwaukee, one high rise is not like the others. A typical tall apartment building is held up by steel and cement — the Ascent… Read more: Midwest builders are using wood in a new way to construct high rises. And it’s climate-friendly

Climate change is no longer an abstraction. I can literally see it at my front door. My figs ripened in October 2024, which has never happened before as it was… Read more: The Carbon Soil Opportunity: Organic Farming Helps Counter Climate Change

The air we breathe is a direct result of the dirt under our feet. Trillions upon trillions of soil bacteria break down organic matter, releasing carbon dioxide and other potent… Read more: New faculty member studies how to leverage microbial forces to combat climate change

The “heat dome” causing scorching temperatures across western Europe and north Africa, and boiling athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games in Paris, would have been impossible without human-caused global… Read more: Extreme ‘heat dome’ hitting Olympics ‘impossible’ without global heating

Tree bark in the world’s forests absorbs the greenhouse gas methane, my colleagues and I have demonstrated for the first time on a global scale – a discovery that could… Read more: Global Study Reveals a Powerful Hidden Way Trees Are Fighting Climate Change

On the surface, brown-colored kelp might not look like the most exciting organism. But when it comes to tackling the climate crisis, this large algae—one of around 12,000 species of… Read more: Why seaweed is a jack of all trades in the fight against the climate crisis

The Farm Zero C project has already made significant progress in its work to slash emissions and boost biodiversity, even though a lot remains to be done. “We have already… Read more: The Farm Zero C project aims to set up a climate-neutral profit-making dairy farm – is it possible?

To combat climate change and move towards the goal of carbon neutrality, researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a durable, highly selective and energy-efficient carbon dioxide… Read more: Researchers develop high-efficiency carbon dioxide electroreduction system for reducing carbon footprint

How one North Dakota farmer saved his farm and livelihood using carbon-friendly farming methods. […] Well, it turns out there is a system that can do all that. It’s called… Read more: Carbon Farming: A Sustainable Agriculture Technique That Keeps Soil Healthy and Combats Climate Change

In 2022, for the first time, the IPCC added carbon capture and utilization, or CCU, to its list of options for drawing down atmospheric carbon. CCU captures CO2 and incorporates… Read more: How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change

Last January, in the waters off Cebu City in the Philippines, researchers first deployed a huge flexible ring seeded with seaweed and spanned by spokelike ropes and tubes. Every nightfall,… Read more: Pilot Project Sends Kelp–and Carbon–to the Seafloor

Many of the gravest threats to humanity are drawing closer, as carbon pollution heats the planet to ever more dangerous levels, scientists have warned. Five important natural thresholds already risk… Read more: Earth on verge of five catastrophic climate tipping points, scientists warn

New research published in Science Advances paints an uncharacteristically upbeat picture for the planet. This is because more realistic ecological modeling suggests the world’s plants may be able to take… Read more: New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected

Their report found that 20 of the 35 planetary vital signs they use to track the climate crisis are at record extremes. As well as greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature… Read more: Earth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn

The glorified charcoal is rare on American farms, yet it has become a focal point in the movement to turn agriculture into a climate solution. Biochar can lock up planet-warming… Read more: Biochar is a ‘shovel-ready’ climate technology, but can it scale up?

With global greenhouse gas emissions reaching an all-time high last year, many scientists and world leaders are now arguing that new technologies which can capture carbon and store it underground… Read more: The bacteria that can capture carbon

Most wine producers believe that tilling is necessary to aerate the ground, but taking a hands-off approach can improve soil health, strengthen root systems and fight climate change. Kathleen Willcox… Read more: How no-till farming could provide the key to combatting extreme weather

Carbon is a “hot topic” in an age of Climate Change (pun intended). That is playing out in unique ways in the agricultural sector. On the negative side, fossil carbon… Read more: Four Modes Of Agricultural Value Creation In The Carbon Age

The aviation sector is booming, with the number of flights in 2023 expected to outstrip the industry’s 2019 peak. Commercial aviation is already responsible for 2-3% of global carbon emissions.… Read more: Sustainable aviation fuels: Potential lagging behind reality

Using better farming techniques to store 1% more carbon in about half of the world’s agricultural soils would be enough to absorb about 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year,… Read more: Improving soil could keep world within 1.5C heating target, research suggests

In the United States, 57 million people were exposed to dangerous heat on Tuesday, according to The Washington Post’s extreme heat tracker. At the same time, China was gripped by… Read more: This July 4 was hot. Earth’s hottest day on record, in fact.

It’s hard to miss something that weighs 37 billion tons—especially when it’s all around us. Thirty-seven billion tons is the amount of fossil-fuel-related carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere… Read more: Watch One Year Of Carbon Emissions Take Over The Planet

Back in 2012, a California businessman sailed a boat into the waters off western Canada and dumped 100 tons of iron filings into the Pacific Ocean. The goal was to… Read more: The Ocean is the Next Frontier for the Carbon Removal Industry

Human-induced warming has averaged 1.14°C over the past decade, a disturbing trend exacerbated by the emission of a record level of greenhouse gases each year, equivalent to 54 billion tonnes… Read more: An Unprecedented Rate of Global Warming – Greenhouse Gas Emissions at “An All-Time High”

What will games have to give up to help create a sustainable future? This story is part of CNET Zero, a series that chronicles the impact of climate change and… Read more: Video Games Are Finally Waking Up to Climate Change

When Nikki Yoxall moved to Ayrshire in Scotland four years ago, she had no idea she would end up herding hundreds of cattle over 500 acres (2 sq km) of… Read more: The farmers fighting climate change

They may be microscopic, but their ability to sequester carbon is phenomenal. We are talking phytoplankton – and scientists working on a project funded by ESA are assessing different aspects… Read more: Untangling the ocean biological carbon pump

Climate change is on the minds of many in the future Class of 2027, and could be a critical factor in how current high-schoolers make their final college choices in… Read more: Want to choose a climate-friendly college? Here are some standouts.

As a researcher committed to addressing the climate emergency, in 2017 I (Liz Carlisle) was eagerly reading through a new ranked list from Project Drawdown of strategies to reduce emissions,… Read more: The return of silvopasture

Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has partnered with CNN… Read more: Ten photographs that made the world wake up to climate change

“Worldwide we’re seeing increased demand for food grown sustainably with a reduced environmental footprint. There are exciting opportunities for New Zealand to tap into this market, which is why we’re… Read more: Regenerative Farming Research to Create Carbon Positive Outcomes

The Biochar Research Network Act would have set up as many as 20 biochar research facilities across the country. On the day the Tigercat carbonator — a machine that looks… Read more: Biochar’s rise on farms could help capture more carbon

Last year unleashed heat wave hell across the United Kingdom, with record-high temperatures scorching cities and drying up the source for London’s iconic River Thames. On Thursday, the nation’s meteorological… Read more: 2022 was officially the U.K.’s hottest year on record — and human-caused climate change made it 160 times more likely

Many climate scientists and policymakers believe that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) is unattainable. This is not… Read more: How to limit global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius

According to Our World in Data, the global population emits about 34 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) each year. Where does all this CO₂ come from? This graphic by… Read more: Mapped: Carbon Dioxide Emissions Around the World

Scientists have found red seaweed 100 metres deep in Antarctica and believe their find could help play a role in the battle against climate change. Professor Frithjof Kuepper, of the… Read more: Seaweed found 100 metres underwater in Antarctica ‘could help in climate change battle’

Federal subsidies promote planting cover crops to store carbon in agricultural soils, among other benefits, but the approach as currently practiced can reduce yields in the U.S. Corn Belt, researchers… Read more: There’s room for improvement in a popular climate-smart agricultural practice, Stanford-led study shows

Three strikes and you’re out is a pretty good rule. And the politicians and negotiators attending the Paris climate summit, “COP21”, in December 2015 were facing their third strike. Their… Read more: The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target

The jump in giving was significant—25% over 2020—and it outpaced the growth of giving overall. Yet contributions to climate philanthropy accounted for just 1 to 1.5% of all giving, according… Read more: The wealthy donated up to $12.5 billion to climate change organizations in the past year—the most ever. But it’s still not enough to save the planet

Climate change has pushed emperor penguins, the largest species of penguin on Earth, onto the threatened species list, which means the iconic Antarctic birds are likely to become endangered in… Read more: Emperor penguins join threatened species list, thanks to climate change

A core ingredient of concrete and a foundation of the industrial world, cement is single-handedly responsible for approximately 8% of total annual global emissions. That’s why earlier this month, two… Read more: How a New Carbon-Neutral Concrete Could Shrink Construction’s Expanding Footprint

Meat accounts for nearly 60% of greenhouse gases from food production, studies have shown. Meat consumption should be reduced to the equivalent of about two burgers a week in the… Read more: Cut meat consumption to two burgers a week to save planet, study suggests

Built to help scientists understand how dust affects climate, the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation can also pinpoint emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. In the data EMIT has… Read more: Methane ‘Super-Emitters’ Mapped by NASA’s New Earth Space Mission

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are on track to increase by just under one percent this year, compared to 2021’s total, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said… Read more: Renewable Energy Is Slowing the Rise of Carbon Emissions

Climate change is causing the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice to melt away. When the polar ocean loses its cover of sea ice, carbon dioxide uptake increases disrupting the food web… Read more: Warmer climate causing acidification of the Arctic Ocean

Tech companies have committed hundreds of millions of dollars to buy carbon dioxide removal services . Now, Terraset, a new nonprofit, is jumping in to help channel private philanthropy into… Read more: Carbon removal has a funding gap. This climate nonprofit is attempting to fill it.

Tree cover losses in northern regions of the world were the highest on record in 2021, according to new analysis from Global Forest Watch. Figures for these boreal forests were… Read more: Climate change: Record tree losses in 2021 in northern regions

Prized for the lightweight, elastic bark, cork oaks can also store large amounts of carbon during their long lifetimes. Now there are moves to find new uses for this material.… Read more: Why the humble wine cork is being reinvented

William Anderegg, director of the University of Utah’s Wilkes Center for Climate and Policy, recently joined with nearly 30 coauthors on a report detailing a roadmap to develop such nature-based… Read more: Nature-based climate solutions explained

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) conducted its annual multi-agency State of Climate Services report focusing on energy this year. The report, collated from 26 different organizations, concluded that electricity supply… Read more: Clean Energy Sources Need to Double By 2030 to Avoid Catastrophe

By transforming carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and other valued chemicals at affordable prices on an industrial scale, a new technology developed at the University of Waterloo can make an… Read more: New CO2 Conversion Technology Helps Fight Against Climate Change

“This technology can electrochemically enhance and restore the oceans’ capacity for carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere at a globally relevant scale, thereby mitigating ongoing and accelerating climate change,” said… Read more: UCLA Institute for Carbon Management to Unveil Seawater-based Carbon Removal Pilot Systems in Los Angeles and Singapore

A new report from the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives found transitioning countries to zero-waste pathways can significantly reduce emissions. Better waste management strategies include increased composting and greater investment… Read more: A global revamp of waste management could significantly reduce emissions: report

“These days, we live in constant threat of uncontrollable wildfires, flooding, drought, hurricanes, cyclones and winter superstorms,” says Veronica Meewes, wine buyer for the small but mighty Saba San’s bottle… Read more: How Climate Change Is Impacting Winemakers In Texas

Scientists have found some of the smallest animals in the ocean are having a big impact in the fight against climate change. Microscopic phytoplankton are estimated to capture up to… Read more: Tiny ocean zooplankton could help tell if climate change targets are met

Climate change and rising temperatures are Earth systems past critical states, after which climate change will become irreversible and would lead to catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity. Although 1.5… Read more: Six Climate Tipping Points We May Cross

With the ongoing climate emergency and nations’ commitments to meet net-zero goals by 2050, there’s a heightened need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through whatever means possible. Carbon capture… Read more: The Key To Avoiding The Worst Effects Of The Climate Emergency

Sept 27 (Reuters) – Methane leaks have emerged as a top threat to the global climate, with the latest incident involving two Russian gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea that… Read more: Explainer: How methane leaks accelerate global warming

“ You Asked ” is a series where Earth Institute experts tackle reader questions on science and sustainability. A reader reached out to us with this question: “ How did… Read more: You Asked: Dinosaurs Survived When CO2 Was Extremely High. Why Can’t Humans?

Illustration: Eniola Odetunde/Axios Time is launching a sustainability division called ” CO2 by Time ” that will offer companies tools that go beyond just offsetting their carbon emissions. Why it… Read more: Time launches platform to help companies tackle climate change

Climate scientists and data engineers have developed a new digital platform billed as the first-ever global tool for accurately calculating the carbon stored in every tree on the planet. Founded… Read more: New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity

Food prices could rise by 9 per cent in the next five years, the UN has warned. Droughts and heatwaves fuelled by climate change have endangered food supplies across Europe… Read more: From coffee to codfish: The foods that will get more expensive with climate change

The world’s oceans absorb about a quarter of humanity’s carbon dioxide emissions, buffering us against higher atmospheric CO2 levels and greater climate change. But that absorption has led to a… Read more: Acid test: Are the world’s oceans becoming too ‘acidic’ to support life?

Researchers from Western Sydney University have recently published a new study that quantifies the phosphorus limitations on photosynthesis in tropical forests and shows how addressing these limitations can help to… Read more: Link Between Photosynthesis and Phosphorus Discovered

That sea levels will rise as Earth’s ice melts is a prophecy that began to come true long ago, at the dawn of industrial civilization when humans began pumping vast… Read more: Glaciers and “zombie ice”: The planet is melting at both ends, research finds

Tree-planting has been widely seen as an effective way of binding carbon as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But now researchers from the University of Gothenburg and elsewhere… Read more: Planting trees not always effective way of binding carbon dioxide

Engineers are building a “cemetery” for unwanted greenhouse gas on the island off Norway’s North Sea coast, in the municipality of Oxygarden, as reported by PhysOrg. The burial ground will… Read more: New Future CO2 Cemetery in Norway Begins Development

FYI: Composting Is The Most Direct Way You Can Impact Climate Change A new fact for foodies: Composting is the most direct way you can impact climate change, says Shawn… Read more: FYI: Composting Is The Most Direct Way You Can Impact Climate Change

Some 2.4 billion people in the developing world lack access to “clean cooking,” instead preparing food on wood and charcoal fire pits or inefficient kerosene stoves. The carbon-dioxide emissions are… Read more: ‘Clean cooking’ can help protect forests and also combat climate change by reducing pressure on woodlands and cutting air pollution

Almost every country is bearing the brunt of climate change. The extremities of natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, wildfires etc. are testimony to what the future holds if timely… Read more: 10 Most Crucial Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation

Now, a team at Caltech led by Jonas Peters, Bren Professor of Chemistry and director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute, has made a breakthrough that increases the efficiency of one… Read more: “Greener” Fertilizer and Carbon-free Fuels Come Closer to Reality

It’s often seen as an old-fashioned material, but a new study suggests that building more urban houses out of wood could help to curb climate change . Researchers from the… Read more: Building urban houses out of WOOD could avoid more than 100 BILLION tons of CO2 emissions by 2100

Devastating floods in Pakistan have been labelled a “climate dystopia” by the country’s climate minister and left a third of the country under water. If we don’t starting taking climate… Read more: 1,000+ People Died In Pakistan’s ‘Apocalyptic’ Floods Yet We’re Still Ignoring Climate Change

A new study has demonstrated that restored Sierra Nevada meadows continue to successfully sequester carbon for more than 20 years, and at rates that exceed international climate change mitigation goals… Read more: Meadow restoration efforts yield long-term climate change mitigation benefits

As the Western U.S. again endures record-breaking summer heat and enters our third decade of drought, it’s time for us to adopt bold, regionwide solutions that will support climate-resilient communities,… Read more: Rewilding the West with wolves and beavers will curb climate change

A newly published scientific paper found that the reason why storms are forming ahead of schedule could be something that storm watchers and climate scientists have long suggested — climate… Read more: Hurricane season heats up earlier and earlier. New study suggests climate change is why

Some 87% of marine species are at risk of being wiped out or devastated by 2100 if the world goes on dumping 35 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the… Read more: Our Carbon Dioxide Emissions could wipe out 87% of Marine Life if we don’t Quickly get to Zero

Albert Straus, founder and CEO of Straus Family Creamery, with some of his cows at his organic dairy farm in Marshall, Calif. Straus garnered attention for feeding his cows seaweed,… Read more: Carbon farming comes to California

If people around the world were as enthusiastic cyclers as they are in the Netherlands, we could cut an impressive amount of planet-heating pollution. The Dutch use bicycles to get… Read more: To fight climate change, we need to start biking like the Dutch

UC Berkeley researchers have developed a cheap, energy-efficient carbon capture technology that could one day be attached to everything from factory smokestacks to car exhausts — keeping greenhouse gasses out… Read more: Cheap carbon capture tech could filter out CO2 in smokestacks

Long considered the “canary in the coal mine” for climate change, the Arctic has been warming faster than the globe as a whole. Now, new research suggests it’s heating up… Read more: The Arctic is Warming Faster Than Previously Thought

2022 was a record year for wildfires in southwestern Europe. The year is also the fourth-highest in terms of wildfire carbon output globally. Scientists have warned that heatwaves like the… Read more: Climate change in 2022 brings unprecedented fire activity in SW Europe, record wildfire carbon output globally

Climate change impacts on healthcare are worldwide and greater than widely acknowledged. Consider the United Kingdom issuing a level 4 heat-health alert after record-breaking temperatures in July, the 50% spike… Read more: It’s time for healthcare to accelerate its climate journey

Record wildfires have erupted this year across Alaska. The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) reports that year-to-date, 547 wildfires have burned across Alaska encompassing more than 3 million acres, making… Read more: Wildfires erupt across Alaska as climate change drives up temperatures in the Arctic

Bristol (United Kingdom) (AFP) – The menu at The Canteen in southwest England doesn’t just let diners know how much a dish costs. They can also check its carbon footprint.… Read more: On the menu at a UK restaurant: carbon footprint

Crops Residue Oceanic Permanent Sequestration is a method of atmospheric carbon dioxide removal that’s simple, straightforward and globally scalable. Essentially, CROPS involves bundling agricultural waste into half-ton cubes and transporting… Read more: Addressing climate change: Plants instead of industrial solutions

How does climate change affect heavy rain? It all starts with the release of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide and methane. As humans keep burning fossil fuels, the atmosphere gets… Read more: How climate change drives inland floods

The big reason here is climate change. The planet is getting hotter because of emissions like carbon dioxide that come from burning fossil fuels. Electrification means replacing furnaces, water heaters,… Read more: Over 25% of US Homes Run Completely on Electricity. Here’s Why That’s Important

Currently, the facilities required to capture air are both stationary and need large areas of land to get the job done, to include equipment storage and the construction of renewable… Read more: Capturing carbon from the air using train cars

Nelson-based research organisation Cawthron Institute has teamed up with Westpac NZ Government Innovation Fund, Port Nelson and forestry company OneFortyOne to launch a seagrass restoration project aiming to fight climate… Read more: Seagrass restoration trial could open new front on climate action

The publication of Bill McGuire’s latest book, Hothouse Earth, could not be more timely. Appearing in the shops this week, it will be perused by sweltering customers who have just… Read more: ‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped, says expert

Huge drama, high speed, a weekend of excess in every regard. Motor racing is probably not uppermost in the minds of sports fans when it comes to being low-impact in… Read more: ‘The solutions to fight climate change are here’: Formula E pushes elite sport and sustainability together

Seth Godin is the best-selling author, marketing expert, and creator of the altMBA, a 31-day leadership workshop that provides students with the skills they need to make meaningful change. He… Read more: Climate Change Requires System Solutions

Praveen Kalra, MD, was doing research to prepare a talk about anesthesia when he read a report that stunned him: It said that each year, emissions from anesthetics used in… Read more: Hospitals take creative steps to reduce carbon footprint

Now according to an international team’s research, an enzyme found in heat-loving bacteria named Thermoanaerobacter kivui could lead to new ways of depositing excessive carbon dioxide. The team led by… Read more: High-Speed Storage Of CO2 Discovered In Bacteria Could Help Fight Climate Change

A Swiss company has started work on what will be the biggest carbon dioxide capturing plant in the world! The new facility, which has been named Mammoth, will be in… Read more: Climate change: New plant in Iceland will remove carbon dioxide from the air

New Zealand has announced a plan to tax livestock burps in an effort to curb the country’s gas emissions. Methane emissions from animals is a well-known issue. Cows alone are… Read more: New Zealand announces world-first plan to tax cow and sheep burps

Finland will be the first European country to reach net zero if it meets ambitious climate targets passed into law by the government. The Nordic nation aims to meet this… Read more: This European country has just set the world’s most ambitious climate target

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing for decades due to human-induced climate change. In May, it broke a record: Carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere… Read more: Carbon Dioxide levels in that atmosphere right now haven’t been this high in at least 4 million years