Chemically, carbon dioxide is incredibly simple – it is just one carbon atom linked with two oxygen atoms. Together they create a colorless gas that makes up just a tiny fraction of the Earth's ...

The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are at their highest level in more than 2 million years – and the world has ...

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, ...

Determining a carbon footprint is easier said than done, and it’s not clear how much weight we should put on it. One way to gain a quantifiable understanding of the impacts of our actions, for good ...

Measuring a company's greenhouse gas emissions has numerous benefits Matt Webber is an experienced personal finance writer, researcher, and editor. He has published widely on personal finance, ...

Blue Carbon refers to organic carbon captured and stored by the ocean in vegetated coastal ecosystems such as mangrove forests, saltmarshes or seagrass meadows. In these Blue Carbon ecosystems, ...