Most Rainforest Carbon Offsets ‘Worthless’: Report
A company can buy credits to offset its emissions. (Representational)A system that allows big corporations to buy carbon offsets in rain forests to cancel out their harmful emissions is essentially…
Indian Railways Aims To Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emission By 2030
Indian Railways said it wants to achieve net zero carbon emission by 2030. (Representational)New Delhi: Indian Railways (IR) on Wednesday said it has envisioned to achieve net zero carbon emission…
Global Fossil Fuel Reserves To Unleash 3.5 Trillion Tonnes Of Carbon Dioxide: Data
The top 12 most polluting sites were all in the Gulf or Russia. (Representational)Paris: Burning the world’s remaining fossil fuel reserves would unleash 3.5 trillion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions…
The Big Business of Burying Carbon
Applicants for EPA carbon-storage permits must persuade the agency that they can contain both the plume of injected carbon dioxide and a secondary plume of saltwater that the CO2 displaces…
How to Make the Video Game Industry Greener
“How many more warnings do we need? The science is clear, it’s unequivocal.” Author and researcher Ben Abraham is pissed. We’re speaking in April, a few days after the IPCC…
Yatra Says Its New Feature Will Estimate Carbon Emissions for Flights
Travel services provider Yatra on Monday said it has introduced a feature on its flight booking platform that will estimate carbon emissions of each flight it displays as a step…
An Investment Case Study On Warren Buffett’s Occidental Petroleum Bet
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway now owns close to 15% stake in the company.Recently, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway purchased 18.1 million shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp, the US oil giant.There’s an…
The Quest to Trap Carbon in Stone—and Beat Climate Change
One evening in November 2016, Gebald was at a swanky party in Marrakesh thrown by the philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs. He was feeling a little out of place among her…
The Race to Find ‘Green’ Helium
As the purr of the rig’s diesel engine reverberated around the drill site, Trigui returned to his mobile laboratory, a dusty portacabin filled with microscopes and rock samples. Checking the…
China’s Carbon Emissions Fall For First Time Since Lockdowns: Report
China’s emissions fell dramatically in early 2020 due to sweeping quarantines (Representational)Beijing: China’s CO2 emissions fell in the third quarter for the first time since the country reopened from Covid-19…