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Portland’s New Airport Built with Local Tribal Timber is Inherently Fire Resistant and Less Carbon-Intensive

Oregon is famous for forests, and so it makes sense that the new "Port of Portland" airport terminal is going to be built almost...

Robots That Look Like Manta Rays Will Sink Seaweed to Ocean Floor–Will Help Absorb Carbon

A robotics company is making manta ray-shaped robots that drown seaweed and lock away the carbon it absorbed throughout its life for hundreds of...

1 Million New Seagrass Seedlings Will Protect Sardinia’s Beaches While Storing 35-Times More Carbon Than Trees

To any government reading, there's a plant that provides habitat for nearly all the species of the sea, anchors the sediment on the seafloor,...

Geothermal Power is Finally a Reality After Next-Generation Breakthrough of Carbon-Free Energy in Nevada

A commercial pilot project confirmed a record production of geothermal energy in northern Nevada this week. Fervo Energy announced it had successfully completed the well...

The First Cargo Ship Running on Green Methanol Weighs Anchor Amidst Merchant Shipping Decarbonization

Global merchant shipping leader Maersk is launching a bio-methanol-powered container ship this week as part of its fast-track decarbonization strategy. Producing about the same emissions...

Water Cremation May be the Ultimate Low-Carbon End-of-Life Option, But What is it?

In the UK, the nation's largest end-of-life service provider is now going to add "resomation" or water cremation, to its offerings. Perhaps the most eco-friendly...

Fungi Could Be the Answer to Global Warming as They Store a Third of All Carbon Emissions

GNN is pro-fungus. We report on their value as medicines, building materials, and food, as well as the constantly evolving portrait of their interconnectedness...

Gigatons of Carbon Could be Captured in Offshore Underwater Volcanoes: A Boon for Climate

A new study concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the...

World’s Tallest ‘Hempcrete’ Building in South Africa Captures More Carbon than it Emits

With breathtaking views over Table Mountain, the world's tallest building made of industrial hemp is set to open in Cape Town this June. At 12...

When Life Gives You Carbon… Make a Factory for Producing Carbon-Negative Concrete

Concrete is being made in Finland with a carbon-negative replacement for cement, something the company hopes will trap more CO2 than it takes to...

Making Building Materials Out of Fast-Growing Grasses Capture More Carbon Than Trees for US Startup

A startup looking to find better ways to mass-produce lumber for construction has swapped trees for grass. It turns out that with sophisticated laminating and...

Growth in Carbon Capture Projects This Year is Dramatic, Showing Global Determination to Cut Emissions

The number of carbon capture and storage projects in the pipeline is exploding, thanks to worldwide efforts to cut emissions. A new report from the...

This Startup Uses Volcanic Rock Dust to Capture Carbon on Farms

An ag-tech startup is spreading basalt rock dust on farmers' fields as both fertilizer and an ingenious way to not only capture carbon, but...

They Baked a Replica of Star Wars Hero ‘Pan Solo’ Frozen in Carbonite –Now in Bread For Halloween

A California bakery created 'Pan Solo'—a 6ft replica of the Star Wars hero frozen in carbonite out of bread. Sci-fi fanatic and expert baker Hannalee...

New Wyoming Carbon Capture Project Will Eliminate 5 Million Tons of CO2 Per Year

A facility that will pull carbon out of the air and deposit it underground believes new incentives will allow it to do so by...

A Dozen Airlines Team Up for Half-Million Ton Carbon Capture Technology

Airbus and a partnership of more than a dozen airlines are working together to fund a new carbon capture project. Their hope is that Carbon...

U.S. to Plug More than 10,000 Abandoned Carbon-Emitting Oil and Gas Wells in 24 States

A new program under President Biden's infrastructure bill is set to plug up more than 10,000 wells of oil and natural gas that have...

NASA Detects Carbon Dioxide–the Building Block of Life–in Exoplanet’s Atmosphere for First Time

For all the grief carbon dioxide gets down here on Earth, its detection for the first time ever in the atmosphere of an exoplanet...

Engineers Turn Water into Carbon-Neutral Jet Fuel Using Solar Radiation

A carbon-neutral synthesis of kerosene, or jet fuel, has been produced by scientists, made by combining sunlight with water. 5% of human emissions are generated...

UK’s Largest Carbon Capture Project Will Turn 40,000 Tons of CO2 into Baking Soda

Tata Chemicals Europe today opened the UK's first industrial scale carbon capture and usage plant today, signaling a key milestone in the race to...