In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I explain the issues of carbon offsets. Specifically, I look at how ...

A study published in Nature Communications has shown that, rather than being discarded, plastics can be transformed into ...

Burning fossil fuels has elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, causing massive changes in the global climate including extreme ...

Some carbon credit projects may trap heat instead of cooling the planet. A new study highlights the missing role of sunlight ...

Researchers are using an unusual design to enhance the sustainability of concrete, with a carbon-absorbing material and ...

An analysis of forest-based projects funded through the sale of carbon credits shows that 10% of them may have a net warming effect on the climate because of the way they alter the Earth’s albedo, or ...

The ocean's smallest engineers, calcifying plankton, quietly regulate Earth's thermostat by capturing and cycling carbon.

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Researchers have developed a light-emitting sugar probe that exposes how marine microbes break down complex carbohydrates.

In a comprehensive analysis that offers a global view of carbon emission trends, researchers are exploring the factors ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Legislators have waded into a battle over a growing movement to bury the carbon refuse of manufacturing under the farm fields of rural Indiana with five bills that reflect differing ...

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, ...