Carbon myopia is concealing a deeper problem: our insatiable appetite for materials ~enviro sustainability recycling Article 1122 words, published Oct 8 2024 24 votes
Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finland's ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035 – but now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores ~enviro climate change Article 1679 words 17 votes
Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide. ~enviro pollution energy climate change Article 400 words 10 votes
Finland is building the world's largest heat pump – will provide enough heat for 30,000 homes, saving roughly 26,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions each year ~enviro Article 544 words 21 votes
Looking for alternatives to flying, Matilda Welin decided to embark on a long-distance cycle from London to Sweden. Here's what she learned. ~transport Article 1988 words 6 votes
What works: Groundbreaking evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades ~enviro climate change Article 591 words 22 votes
AI tech giants hide dirty energy with outdated carbon accounting rules ~enviro energy Article 1632 words 12 votes
Heidelberg Materials' cement plant in Norway will be the first of a handful around the world to capture carbon in the production of cement ~enviro pollution Article 1209 words 16 votes
Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay ~enviro water.waste Article 708 words 19 votes
Industrial emissions poised to become largest US carbon source ~enviro pollution Article 357 words 9 votes
Denmark will introduce a levy on farm emissions in what is set to be one of the world's first carbon taxes on agriculture ~enviro climate change Article 77 words 26 votes
'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement ~enviro Article 617 words, published May 23 2024 25 votes
Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce ~enviro Article 185 words 14 votes
A big new facility built to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened up in Iceland. It's a stepping stone to bigger plans in the US. ~enviro climate change Article 661 words 30 votes
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 2117 words 33 votes
California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0 ~enviro pollution Article 31 votes
How to escape from the Iron Age? We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels. ~humanities Article 2449 words, published Mar 18 2024 27 votes
Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries ~enviro energy.renewable plastics climate change pollution Article 986 words 19 votes
Joe Biden administration announces rules aimed at expanding US electric vehicles ~enviro climate change Article 1732 words 22 votes
California, USA must triple its rate of carbon emissions reductions to reach 2030 target, report says ~enviro Link 16 votes
Industrial-scale thermal storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world's biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1083 words 23 votes
EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit sixty-year low ~enviro climate change Article 670 words, published Jan 24 2024 11 votes
The $2.6 billion experiment to cover up Europe's dirty habit – Norwegian project to bury carbon waste under the sea is getting backing from Germany ~enviro climate change pollution.air Article 77 words 8 votes
Can hydrogen help the world reach net zero? ~enviro energy Video 24:46, published Jun 14 2023 14 votes
Your organic, eco-friendly lifestyle isn't as green as you think ~enviro sustainability Article 621 words, published Dec 29 2023 67 votes
Developing countries emit 2/3 of the world's carbon: they can't afford the lending terms of renewable projects ~enviro climate change energy.renewable Article 1618 words, published Dec 2 2023 38 votes
Denmark, Finland and Panama aim to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit – that will take giving nature a boost ~enviro climate change pollution Article 642 words 12 votes
Lars Aagaard, Danish climate minister, says farmers deserving most success on the European market should be those who emit the least carbon per tonne of food produced ~enviro climate change Link 18 votes
How can we stop burning fossil fuels if we still need everything else they make? ~enviro Video 15:50 22 votes
The humble American trash truck is ready for an all-electric upgrade ~transport Article 1449 words 9 votes
Iceland volcano won't spew more carbon than humanity – social media is once again filling up with such claims, as it always does when volcanoes make news ~enviro Article 77 words 15 votes
One huge contradiction is undoing our best climate efforts ~enviro climate change Article 1712 words 34 votes
Cheap to make, and easily scalable supercapacitor demonstrated by MIT ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1565 words, published Oct 4 2023 27 votes
Lego abandons effort to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles ~hobbies Article 289 words 43 votes
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" ~hobbies Article 475 words 15 votes
Denmark launches the Laura Maersk, the first container ship to run entirely on green methanol – will save 2.75 million tonnes of CO2 per year ~transport Link 21 votes
Applying taxes to beef products could be one way to reduce CO2 emissions, says the Danish Government ~food meat Article 361 words 26 votes
A cargo ship equipped with rigid sails, each the height of a ten-story building, has departed on its inaugural journey ~transport Article 449 words 62 votes
Removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere may not 'fix' climate change ~enviro climate change Article 842 words 23 votes