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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

Terrifying NASA Video Shows America Spewing CO2 Into Atmosphere

Terrifying NASA Video Shows America Spewing CO2 Into Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

The Blue Visby Solution proposes that cargo ships stop arriving way ahead of schedule and reduce their top speeds at sea to save fuel.

Renewable Energy

Ingenious Trick Cuts Cargo Ship Carbon Emissions by 17 Percent

By Frank Landymore

Thomas Crowther, whose work fueled the craze around planting trees, no longer thinks it's the best way to combat carbon emissions.

Guy Who Urged Planting a Trillion Trees Begs People to Stop Planting So Many Trees

By Frank Landymore

Genetically supercharged trees and other plants could be promising CO2 vacuums, but are yet to be proven outside the greenhouse.

Scientists Working on Gene-Hacked Plants to Suck Up Extra CO2

By Frank Landymore

Gianluca Grimulda, an Italian social and climate scientist, prefers "slow travel" to cut down on his carbon emissions. That means no flights.

Climate Researcher Fired for Refusing to Fly

By Frank Landymore

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

New research suggests that hidden vegetation in NYC seems to absorb a lion's share of its carbon emissions via photosynthesis.

Renewable Energy

NYC’s Greenery Eats Up All the CO2 From Its Cars, Trucks and Buses “And Then Some”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A huge cargo ship will use a large kite to drag itself across the ocean in a test run next month in an effort to reduce carbon emissions the shipping industry emits each year.

Cargo Ship Will Get Dragged Through Ocean by Giant Kite

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to internal documents obtained by Bloomberg, America's largest oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil has been planning to increase annual emissions.

Exxon Mobil Planning to Massively Increase Its Annual Emissions

By Victor Tangermann

The wealthiest one percent in the world emits twice the carbon as does the poorer half of the Earth's population, revealing stark global inequalities.

The Richest One Percent Emits Twice as Much Carbon as Half the World

By Dan Robitzski

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.

Renewable Energy

Australian Wildfires Could Release a Billion Tons of Carbon

By Kristin Houser

Strategic design consultancy Manyone proposes building an elevated train called the AeroSlider as a way to cut the emissions caused by air travel.

Advanced Transport

This Rail Gun-Style Elevated Train Goes 500 MPH

By Kristin Houser

We could pause global warming for 15 to 20 years if we're willing to spend $300 billion to restore billions of acres of land, say UN scientists.

UN Scientists: We Could Pause Global Warming With $300 Billion

By Kristin Houser

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

Training Advanced AIs is Surprisingly Terrible for the Environment

By Victor Tangermann

A group of 45 economic experts believes the U.S. should create a carbon tax and give the revenue to Americans via a yearly rebate.

Top Economists: U.S. Should Tax Carbon and Give Citizens the Money

By Kristin Houser