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When it comes to our personal contributions to climate change, most people have no clue how damaging some of their individual actions can be.

Scientists Find Evidence That You’re a Hypocrite Who’s Causing More Than Your Share of Climate Change

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hoping to maximize's the ocean's potential as the world's largest carbon sink, scientists in the UK are sucking carbon out of seawater.

Scientists Activate Facility to Suck Carbon Directly Out of the Ocean

By Frank Landymore

The emissions produced by AI datacenters is likely far worse than believed because of how companies report their sustainability data.

Artificial Intelligence

We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

By Frank Landymore

The research explores how the reintroduction of bison into an ecosystem helped boost the overall amount of carbon sucked up by plants.

A Single Herd of Bison Can Help Capture CO2 From Over 40,000 Cars, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

For the first time, a commercial facility that can suck carbon out of the air and store it underground has opened in the United States.

Renewable Energy

United States Opens First Facility to Suck CO2 Out of the Air

By Noor Al-Sibai

MIT researchers have figured out a way to create a supercapacitor simply by mixing cement, and a fine charcoal product called carbon black.

MIT Scientists May Have Found a Cheap Way of Storing Huge Amounts of Energy in Cement

By Victor Tangermann

A new NASA animation visualizes the ebb and flow of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions around the globe. It's not pretty.

Horrifying NASA Video Shows What It Would Look Like if Carbon Emissions Were Visible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Good news, everyone! Climate change is now CANCELED thanks to an ingenious plot to put trees on the blockchain, because that's how the environment works.

The Environment Is Saved! We’re Putting Trees on the Blockchain

By Noor Al-Sibai

Newly discovered "cocoons" of gaseous carbon around young galaxies could help solve the mystery of how the element spread throughout the universe.

Science & Energy

Strange “Cocoons” Surround These Young Galaxies

By Kristin Houser

A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.

Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

By Jon Christian

An ambitious new analysis found that there's space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees — a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions.

Research: Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions

By Jon Christian

New research shines a light on the importance of soil moisture in plants' ability to trap CO2 — and extreme weather events could hinder that ability.

Extreme Weather Is Preventing Plants From Processing Carbon

By Kristin Houser

Scientists Are Engineering Carbon-Storing Plants to Fight Climate Change

Scientists Are Engineering Carbon-Storing Plants to Fight Climate Change

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This New “Super” Carbon Is Tough, Elastic, and Electrically Conductive

By Chelsea Gohd

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Scientists Have Finally Created a Molecule That Was 70 Years in the Making

By Neil C. Bhavsar

Renewable Energy

Massive Collision 4.4 Billion Years Ago Might Have Made Life on Earth Possible