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Credit prices under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) could approach $100 by the end of 2025, panellists said at a conference Wednesday.

BeZero Carbon has secured $32 million in fresh funding to help expand its rating coverage to Article 6 credits, the international aviation emission scheme CORSIA, and the voluntary sector.

A CDR lead at one of the largest US tech companies shed light Tuesday on how the company makes its carbon credit purchasing decisions, saying that the best way to nurture early-stage removal pathways is to understand and become comfortable with certain levels of risk.

A new proposal by a US regulator means CO2 pipelines could face new regulatory requirements as the industry prepares for nationwide expansion.

The US DOE announced $100 million in available federal funding on Wednesday to develop technologies that convert CO2 emissions from industrial operations and power generation into usable products.

I’ve been writing about climate change for years. I know my graphs won’t change minds, but facts matter

2025 has not started well, and you should be bloody angry.

We are less than five months from the federal election and both major parties’ climate change policies are an amalgam of indolence and lies.

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A CDR company announced delivery of 420 credits from enhanced rock weathering (ERW) projects to a carbon buyers club.

South Africa's wealthiest cities are leading the charge toward a net zero future, but coal-dependent provinces remain at risk of being left behind unless targeted support is provided, according to new research released on Wednesday.

Total greenhouse gas emissions in Germany dropped by a record 10.3% in 2023, even as new data showed forests have flipped from net sink to emitter, reported the German environment agency (UBA) on Wednesday.

Recently approved amendments to California’s Low Clean Fuel Standard (LCFS) could be finalised by April, ARB staff told a conference Wednesday, barring potential complications from three ongoing lawsuits.

The German government must transpose the latest reform of the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) now, maintain a fixed price on CO2 for an extra year on its national carbon market, and defer a decision on the inclusion of waste incinerators to the EU, a public hearing at Germany’s lower house of Parliament heard on Wednesday.

We’ve had many public awareness campaigns, yet Australia is still nowhere near the federal-government supported goal of zero drownings. Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group + School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Bottom-contact fishing activities, considered harmful to marine ecosystems, continued in EU waters between 2022 and 2023 even after the European Commission's decision to limit the practice, a study has found.

Will water soon be a marketable commodity or a priceless public good?

There’s a scene in the film Mad Max: Fury Road where the evil ruler Immortan Joe, gazing down from a cliff upon his parched, emaciated subjects, turns two turbines, and water gushes from three gigantic sluices. The wretched masses surge forward to catch the deluge in their pots and bowls. And as imperiously as he opened the gates, Joe shuts them. “Do not become addicted to water,” he roars. “It will take hold of you.” But, of course, he already has taken hold of them by withholding, essentially, life.

We don’t have to await the dystopian future for the water wars to begin. The struggle over water, between private interests and the public good, the powerful and the weak, is raging now. From Love Canal to Flint, Michigan; Bolivia to Ukraine to Tunisia; budget-cutting, privatization, corporate malfeasance and climate crises are conspiring to create political violence, mass migration, property damage and death.

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Methane emitted from the Nord Stream pipeline leak in 2022 has been found to be nearly double the initial estimates, according to academic researchers.

Four-fifths of companies that are on track to meet their climate targets also tie their executive pay to meeting green objectives, new research has found.

The EU should create a new fund to stave off the existential threat of Chinese and American competition while moving closer to the bloc's climate neutrality objectives, according to former Polish Climate Minister Marcin Korolec.

Norwegian energy giant Equinor has revised a key claim about its flagship carbon capture and storage (CCS) project after official figures revealed discrepancies with the company’s public statements, an investigative journalism project has found.

A new Finnish law aims to push the construction industry to take into account both the positive and negative impacts of a new building's entire life cycle, as part of an effort to push the sector to reduce emissions and boost circularity.

DNA analysis suggests Iron Age societies in Britain were built around women rather than men.