Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
The carbon removal market is fast growing, with an array of different removal methods available to businesses keen to mitigate their environmental impact.
The carbon removal market is fast growing, with an array of different removal methods available to businesses keen to mitigate their environmental impact.
As relentless rains pounded LA, the city’s “sponge” infrastructure helped gather 8.6 billion gallons of water—enough to sustain over 100,000 households for a year.
Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa, CTO of Greenpeace, says technology firms must shape up—and consumers and business clients should walk away if they don’t.
Valley fever is thriving as California swings widely between drought and flooding.
Healthy ecosystems in developing countries sequester carbon, regulate the weather, and help plants grow thousands of miles away. Wealthier countries benefit from these services—and so should pay for them to be maintained.
Roughly half of the world’s emissions currently can’t be reduced, yet green investment continues to avoid the sectors that need the most help—manufacturing, agriculture, and the built environment.
Researchers are finding better ways to extract drinking water, compost, and even energy from wastewater. It’s not gross. It’s science.
These mannequins undergo daily torture at the hands of textile scientists, but their suffering means we humans can have future-proofed clothing capable of handling our warming world.