The ocean is Earth's largest carbon sink, absorbing about 25% of the CO₂ released by human activities. However, this uptake ...

There’s a valley in rural southwest Utah that’s become a hub for renewable energy. Dozens of tall white wind turbines whoosh up in the sky. A sea of solar panels glistens in the distance. But the new ...

Watch a Cornell ice hockey game at Lynah Rink and you'll spend three periods looking at—or rather, through—a methacrylate, a type of polymer used widely in paints, adhesives and glass substitutes. But ...

In the span of a decade, direct air capture technology that draws CO 2 out of the atmosphere has gone from wildly expensive to somewhat expensive. Companies like Microsoft, which set a target to ...

Many companies across the world use carbon credits as part of their climate strategies to offset emissions. A carbon credit is a certificate that represents the reduction, avoidance or removal of one ...

Poor households in Germany and France pay up to $2 more per ton of emitted carbon dioxide than their higher-income compatriots. That is because products and services that wealthier people are likelier ...