How To Enjoy Eco-Friendly Vacations
Keep your travel green this summer by choosing a carbon-efficient airline, visiting eco-friendly locations and buying from local businesses there…
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Is Precast Concrete the Key to Rebuilding Our Infrastructure?
Maybe we should start looking to concrete—made out of locally-sourced water, stone, sand & gravel—as a green solution to America’s infrastructure problems.
Plastic Ocean Pollution a Driver of Climate Change?
Carbon sequestration by lanternfish is central to the overall role of marine environments in reducing human-caused CO2 emissions in the atmosphere…
Carbon Sequestration: Are Roadsides the Answer?
Planting trees & shrubs on otherwise unused roadsides could help meet Paris climate goals, but not everyone thinks it’s a good idea…
What’s the difference between a carbon tax and “cap-and-trade” system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
Dear EarthTalk: What’s the difference between a carbon tax and “cap-and-trade” system for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? —Marina Brown, New York, NY Most of us can agree that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a must given the rapid warming of the planet; just how to […]
What is the Great Green Wall of China?
Dear EarthTalk: What is the Great Green Wall of China? —Jacob Williston, Tempe, AZ Unlike the Great Wall of China, a 5,000-mile fortification dating back to the 7th century BC that separates northern China from the Mongolian steppe, the Great Green Wall of China — otherwise known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program — is […]
Staying Grounded
Climatologist Kevin Anderson hasn’t flown in an airplane for seven years in order to lead by example in cutting his carbon footprint way back…
Cement Sequestration
Calera Corp has found a way to fix carbon back into components of our built environment through cement sequestration—& turn a profit in the process…
Black Carbon’s Big Impacts
For years, efforts to study and reduce the impacts of climate change have focused on one very specific gas—carbon dioxide (CO2). But when it comes to global warming, other gases and atmospheric particles may play more than just a supporting role. Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution produced mainly from burning biomass, cooking […]
Has China overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest global warming polluter?
China passed the U.S. as the world’s leading greenhouse gas emitter back in 2006 & today produces ~17% of the world’s total CO2 output.